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Style: American Realist
"La Cage Aux Fowls" - Surreal Figurative Abstract
By G. Lester
Located in Soquel, CA
"La Cage Aux Fowls" A tongue in cheek swipe at the artist and his muse, the nude and of course the chicken. An oil on canvas circa 1980, signed G. Lester of Ardsley, New York (Americ...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ascension, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Considered symbols of luck, Koi fish are known for their tenacity to swim rushing streams and waterfalls until they reach their goal," says artist Candice Eisenfeld. "They are determined and they never give up. Symbolic in Buddhism, they represent courage and strength."
About the Artist
As an American exploring issues of identity, artist Candice Eisenfeld paints through the lens of the first American art movement, the Hudson River School. Rather than depicting a specific locale, Candice’s artwork evokes a sense of place. These "inner landscapes" are invented, and often reference photographs taken during travels in southern Appalachia and the Blue Ridge and Smokey Mountains. Whether real or imagined, her paintings are influenced by the Dutch Masters, Tonalists, and Chinese painting. Produced on a single wooden panel, the ethereal landscapes are often joined with segments of aqueous color fields which act as commentary for the landscapes, like the chorus in a Greek play. The crisp, hard edges separating the landscapes from the color fields command a sense of order in an otherwise fluid and painterly surface. With two or three sections of the panel competing for attention, the painting creates multiple focal points. Candice's art has been displayed in embassies in Namibia and Belarus, held in the collections of Norwest Bank and Northwest Airlines...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Atlas Shrugged - Greek Mythology Inspired Bronze Sculpture on Granite Base
By Dean Kugler
Located in Chicago, IL
Dean Kugler
Atlas Shrugged, 2024
bronze, ed. 9/12
22h x 14.50w x 16d in
55.88h x 36.83w x 40.64d cm
ed. 9/12
DK0046
Dean Kugler is a seasoned interdisciplinary artist, painter, and ...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
The Sting, original U. S. 1 sheet linen backed movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original one-sheet vintage American movie poster, The Sting.
Archival linen backed. In very good condition, ready to frame.
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Rainy Drugs Sign by Michael Ormerod - American Gritty Street Photography
Located in Brighton, GB
Rainy Drugs Sign by Michael Ormerod is available as an 8" x 10" print on Hahnemuhle paper from a limited edition of 10 prints.
Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibition, 'Mic...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Black and White
6 Camellias After An Unknown Japanese Artist
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "6 Camellias After An Unknown Japanese Artist" 1988 is a original color lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovni...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
William de Shazo - Pacific Seascape
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: William Deshazo
Title: Pacific Sea Scape
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: Framed 28.5" x 48.5". Unframed: 39" x 19.5"
Artist Bio:
William D...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Three Magenta Peonies" contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Three Magenta Peonies" is contemporary realist oil painting pink flowers on black background. A classical painting subject and style, with a fresh and intriguing touch.
Signed "Personett" lower left corner.
Framed in a traditional black frame w gold trim.
Framed dimensions:
Rachel Personett was born in Hawaii, but raised in Colorado. Being the daughter of a pilot she has always traveled extensively. She has studied part time at the Savannah College of Art and Design, The Angel Academy of Art, and finally settled on the Florence Academy of Art, graduating in 2015. In January 2016 she apprenticed the painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway for eight months. Rachel Personett works strictly from life, and enjoys the challenged of painting the ephemeral. Working from life provides the opportunity to travel around the world painting the ever changing people and landscapes.
Artist Statement
My mother had studied advertising in college, so she knew a lot about arts and good craftsmanship. She did talks at my elementary school each week and on a different artist. I remember being very moved by the images of Van Gogh and Andrew Wyeth. At the Florence Academy I really liked Sargent, Sorolla, Willard Metcalf, Henri Fantin-Latour and Velazquez. At Odd Nerdrums I gained new respect for Rembrandt and was introduced to other Scandinavian...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Summer Coffee
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what ...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Winter Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Winter Landscape " c.1930 is a watercolor by noted American artist Raphael Senseman, 1870-1966 It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork size is ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Three Ducks Taking to Flight)
Drypoint, c. 1940
Signed lower right
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Winchell Heirs by descent
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Sheet size: 12 1/2 x 10 5/16 inches
Created while the artist was a commercial artist working in Minneapolis, after his tenure of being an instructor at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the 1930's.
Paul H. Winchell (1903 – 1971) was a printmaker, illustrator, teacher, and gilder according to Crump, 2009 (Minnesota Prints and Printmakers, 1900- 1945, Minnesota Historical Society Press). He was the son of Mrs. Looman Winchell of Shepherd Rd as noted in a 1937 newspaper article (Painsville, O. Telegraph). Winchell grew up in North Perry, Ohio and then studied and worked as an instructor at the Art Institute of Chicago. He studied with Leon Kroll (1884 – 1974), Boris Anisfeld...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Drypoint
chrysanthemum
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "chrysanthemum" is an original linocut print on paper by American botanical artist Henry Evans, 1918-1990. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 213/320 in penc...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Linocut
Summer Evening, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Colorado summer evening. A couple walks a path alongside a pond while their dog plays by the water. Warm light from the right illuminates the house and surrou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Farm at Stover Mill, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Regional American Landscape
Located in Doylestown, PA
Stover Mill is an American regional landscape of a historic mill and farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania by local resident and artist Loraine Thompson. The 10.5 x 13.5 inches watercol...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"The Courtship" Wayman Adams, circa 1920 New Orleans Figures in Interior Scene
By Wayman Adams
Located in New York, NY
Wayman Adams
The Courtship, circa 1920
Signed upper right; titled on the reverse
Oil on board
16 x 12 inches
Adams was born on a farm in rural Indiana near Muncie. His father, a horse farmer and amateur artist, encouraged the younger Adams’ interest in art. At age twenty-one, Adams moved to Indianapolis to attend the John Herron Art Institute. There, he began to paint portraits.
He took two trips to Europe, the first in 1910 when he traveled to Italy with William Merritt Chase. Two years later, he accompanied Robert Henri to Spain where he met fellow artist Margaret Boroughs, whom he married six years later. In 1914, Adams painted a series of portraits for the city hospital in Indianapolis. He was to paint children whose families had been in the United States for generations and also children of immigrants to represent the various nationalities of which the city was composed. It was considered to be one of the most ambitious public art projects in Indiana’s history. Originally, twenty-four portraits were to be done; while some are now missing, they were all initially installed in the pediatric ward of the hospital.
After painting a portrait of author...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
West 14th Street at Sunset, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"This painting was inspired by the dramatic lighting and shadows receding into West 14th Street at sunset," says artist Nick Savid...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Apple Cider, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith depicts a realistic culinary-themed still life. "The bottle opener was of my dad and mom's from so long ago I don't remember when," shares Dwight. He paints a bright red apple on its side adjacent to it. A focused light source highlights the foreground, while strong contrasts of dark shadows in the background frame the elements.
About the Artist
Dwight Smith depicts commonplace objects with a sense of playfulness and humor. His watercolor still life paintings appear conventional in their soft colors and composed compositions, but upon further observation the juxtaposition of unrelated items make for delightfully surprising combinations and comparisons. This transformation of the everyday, and strong graphic style, lend the work a pop feel. However, pop art is generally cool and ironic. Instead, there is a familiar and comforting sense of kitsch and Americana in Dwight’s subjects. In a similar fashion to the work of American artist Wayne Thiebaud, Dwight paints food and sweets of the American appetite. Doughnuts, hotdogs, and lollipops are captured in all of their potent delight. He plays with scale and composition to bring out a sense of the absurd, but ultimately his goal is to make the viewer smile.
Words that describe this painting: watercolor, realism, still life, culinary, apple, apple cider...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
"See No Evil" oil painting, self portrait of artist covering her eyes with hands
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"See No Evil" is an oil painting. It depicts a woman, the artist, Maryann Lucas covering her eyes with her hands. The two tone composition represents the artist's astrological sign, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII
Located in New York, NY
"Men in Barracks" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Realism Gay Modernism WWII. 18 x 24 inches Watercolor on paper. c. 1940s. Signed lower right.
BIO
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Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original BOAC lithograph Caribbean vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: (CARIBBEAN JET) BOAC travel poster by the artist Hayes. Dressed in a beautiful dress this Caribbean beauty is dancing an...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pierrot
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Pierrot" 1984 is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Sheldon C. Schoneberg, 1926-2012. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 81/100 in pencil by the artist. Published by Michel Caza, Paris, France. The image size is 20.75 x 26.25 inches, sheet size is 24.75 x 33 inches. With the stamp of the artist at the lower left corner, and the printer's at the lower right corner. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Born in Oak Park, Illinois; family moves to Beverly Hills; Attends El Rodeo, Beverly Hills High then Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles; University of Southern California, BFA cum laude. MFA, 1951; Academia di Belle Arti, Rome, 3rd Year Certificate; Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico, 1952, Graduate School - Fresco Printings.
TEACHING:
Santa Monica College, 1947; Hollywood Art Center School 1948; Pratt University, New York, 1950; Academic Rank of Full Professor of Art - University of New York, New Paltz, 1964 and University of Southern Maine 1967; Master Drawing Classes, Paris-American Academy of Art, Paris, France 1984-1985, Drawing, Painting and Contemporary Art History- University of New England, Biddeford, Maine 1993 - 2002.
CYCLES OF WORKS IN ART:
• Biblical, American Indian, Rome 1948-62, Oil Paintings
• Drawings Wash and Ink, Wood and Ink, Sepia Conte and Ink, Pastels 1940-1968, California, New York, Maine
• Archetypal Frescos 1948-55, Mexico, California, Israel
• Goyescas, Satiric Ink and Wash Sketches, Spain and Greece 1954-1962
• Tapestries of the Zodiac 1961-1963, Spain
• Para-Mandalas, Collages, Mixed-Media, Oil Paintings 1961-1967
• Flower-Children Series and Flag Series, Charcoal Pastel Drawings, California and Maine 1965-2008
• Bas-Relief polyester Resin Sculpture, Bronze Sculpture, 1966-1968
• The Centaurs Garden Suite, Centre Genevois de Grauvure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland, lithographs on stone and etchings 1971
• Oil Paintings,Landscapes, Portraits, Nudes and Still Lifes, Mykonos, Greece, Spain, California, France, Mexico, Maine, British Columbia, Switzerland 1960-2008
• Barbary Coast Drawings, Full Color and Monochromatic 1967-1994
• The Apocalypse Series, Acrylic and Oil Paintings, Drawings 1973-1983
• Charcoal Pastel Drawings, California, Maine, France, Switzerland 1946-2008
• Metamorphous Series, Charcoal Pastel Collage Drawings on Museum Board 1987-2008
• Collage Series Drawings, San Francisco, Limington, New paltz, Los Angeles 1958-2008
• Poster Series, 90+ Charcoal Pastel Drawings on Museum Board 1985-2008
• Fayum Portrait Series, Charcoal-Pastel and Fauve Drawings 1992-2008
• Formal and Informal Portraits - Oil Paintings, Drawings, Models, Commissions, Compositions, Re-Creations 1942-2008
• Murals- Commissiond, Given and Inspired Oil paintings, Drawings, Acrylic Paintings, Collage Drawings 1936-2008
• Maquettes-100+ small original Charcoal Pastel Drawings for commissions 1970-2008
• The Great Masters of Art Series 1998-2008
• Flower Oil Paintings on Canvas ( Sunflowers, Hydrangas,etc) 2000-2008
EXHIBITIONS: INTERNATIONAL: COMBINED TOTAL OF 214, INCLUDING 82 ONE_MAN EXHIBITIONS. A SELECTION FOLLOWS.
• Museum of Munich 1948
• Museum of Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico 1952
• Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece 1961
• Casa de Cultura, Malaga, Spain 1964
• Exposition Internationale d'Art de Mode, Val de Grace, Paris, France
• 20th Anniversaire Paris American Academy 1985
• Gallery International Inc, St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles 1990-93
• National Museum of Mexico,D.F.1970-2008 Genesis Fresco 12'x35'
• Galerie du Carlton, La Croisette, Cannes, France 1964-78
• Galerie des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France 1966-78
• Galeria "M" Copenhagan, Denmark 1967
• Galerie del Cisne, Madrid, Spain
• Upper Grosvenor Galleries, London England 1966-68
• Kunsthandel Monet, Amsterdam Holland 1960-80
• Harrison Galleries, Vancouver BC Canada 1970-2008
• Guild Gallerie Calgary, Canada 1975-98
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: USA
• University of Southern California 1950
• Palos Verdes Community Galleries, CA 1955
• Cowie Galleries, Los Angeles, CA 1956
• Los Angeles Municipal Galleries, Barnsdall, CA " Art of the Mural" 1959
• Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1962-63
• Raymond Burr Galleries Beverly Hills, CA 1961-64
• Gallery 235, Chicago,IL 1967
• Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (Retrospective 1969-2008)
• Lars Laine Art Galleries, Palm Springs, CA 1969-84
• Two Squares Gallery, Denver, CA 1966-70
• Fisk University Art Museum, Nashville TN 1968
• Lewis Galleries, Omaha Nebraska 1973-2008
• Talberts Galleria Tacoma, WA 1978-2008
• Lyon Art Gallery San Francisco CA 1974-1980
• Owl 57 Galleries Woodmere NY 1979-2008
• Walt Kuhn Galleries, Cape Neddick...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Three Pelicans, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt displays an impressionist portrait of three brown pelicans. The birds sun themselves in the Sea of Cortez against a subtle greenish-blue late afternoon sky. "I hadn't thought about pelicans having a 3D vision like hawks until I was looking over my photos and saw one of the birds staring straight at me," shares Emil. He references his photographs from a National Geographic Zodiac that the pelicans seemed curious about, allowing very close viewing.
About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Laid Bare' - landscape - oil on canvas - woods - George Inness
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Laid Bare" is a landscape painting featuring hues of grey, green, blue and yellow.
Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale.
Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
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 Art
Materials
Oil
Feeling the Light
Located in Denver, CO
Lone figure by window
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Turbulent Sky - 61 x 61 inches, circular canvas
Located in Burlingame, CA
Blue sky painting with sunlight shining through turbulent clouds with a warm hue. Created with a calm and etherial palette of blue, white, and lavender. Painted on a 5 foot circular canvas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Portrait Painting of a Gentleman of the Verplanck Family
Located in Houston, TX
The painting features a 3/4 bust portrait of a gentleman from the Verplanck family of Orange County, New York. The painting shows a young man seated for her portrait in a fine black ...
Category
1820s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Black Turnstone #3
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Black turnstones are small hyperactive solitary shorebirds that, on Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara where they can be found in abundance in early winter, ra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Red to Green, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a realistic still life of a collection of red and green items. Apples, chillis, beans, buttons, and a sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Race Day
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel by Jenness Cortez signed and dated lower left beautifully framed and matted measuring 16" x 21" including the frame. This painting features two jockeys and their race ho...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Original Buy Bonds Every Payday vintage World War 2 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 2 vintage poster: YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS EITHER! BUY BONDS EVERY PAYDAY. Linen-backed, fine condition, ready to frame. Great ...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
"Still Life with Red Wine"
Located in Southampton, NY
Wonderful small still life painting by John T. Axton III done circa 1980. Oil on canvas and signed with the artist's monogram lower left. Unframed.
Axton was born in Fort Leavenwo...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original "The Joe Louis Story", 1953 vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The Joe Louis Story” vintage movie poster (United Artists, 1953). One Sheet (27" X 41"). Sports. Archival linen backed.
Starring: Coley Wallace, Hilda Simms, Paul Stewart, James Edwards, John Marley, Dots Johnson, Evelyn Ellis, Carl 'Rocky' Latimer, John Marriott, Ike Jones, P. Jay Sidney, Royal Beal, Ruby Goldstein, Max Baer...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Whimbrel and Plover, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In this dramatic seascape, Jesse Aldana describes a stormy evening on the coast near Santa Barbara, CA. A cloudburst races acros...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Original "Christmas Mailing Time" vintage poster WWII
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Christmas Mailing Time vintage poster: Artist: Bogorad. Original World War I (2) U. S. Army and Navy Postal Service. Linen backed in B co...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
"Hat and Bird's Nests" oil painting surrealist still life eggs, feathers, silk
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Hat and Bird's Nests" is part of Levin's "plumage" series, where he contrasts hats to birds, their nests, eggs, and feathers. Here, a hat sits centered between two nests, inside of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Someday
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Someday" c.1980 is an original colors offset lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Sheldon C. Schoneberg, 1926-2012. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 10/425 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 20 x 25 inches, sheet size is 21.75 x 29.5 inches. It is in excellent condition, it has as a small brown ink spot in the bottom margin under the title. has never been framed.
About the artist:
Born in Oak Park, Illinois; family moves to Beverly Hills; Attends El Rodeo, Beverly Hills High then Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles; University of Southern California, BFA cum laude. MFA, 1951; Academia di Belle Arti, Rome, 3rd Year Certificate; Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico, 1952, Graduate School - Fresco Printings.
TEACHING:
Santa Monica College, 1947; Hollywood Art Center School 1948; Pratt University, New York, 1950; Academic Rank of Full Professor of Art - University of New York, New Paltz, 1964 and University of Southern Maine 1967; Master Drawing Classes, Paris-American Academy of Art, Paris, France 1984-1985, Drawing, Painting and Contemporary Art History- University of New England, Biddeford, Maine 1993 - 2002.
CYCLES OF WORKS IN ART:
• Biblical, American Indian, Rome 1948-62, Oil Paintings
• Drawings Wash and Ink, Wood and Ink, Sepia Conte and Ink, Pastels 1940-1968, California, New York, Maine
• Archetypal Frescos 1948-55, Mexico, California, Israel
• Goyescas, Satiric Ink and Wash Sketches, Spain and Greece 1954-1962
• Tapestries of the Zodiac 1961-1963, Spain
• Para-Mandalas, Collages, Mixed-Media, Oil Paintings 1961-1967
• Flower-Children Series and Flag Series, Charcoal Pastel Drawings, California and Maine 1965-2008
• Bas-Relief polyester Resin Sculpture, Bronze Sculpture, 1966-1968
• The Centaurs Garden Suite, Centre Genevois de Grauvure Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland, lithographs on stone and etchings 1971
• Oil Paintings,Landscapes, Portraits, Nudes and Still Lifes, Mykonos, Greece, Spain, California, France, Mexico, Maine, British Columbia, Switzerland 1960-2008
• Barbary Coast Drawings, Full Color and Monochromatic 1967-1994
• The Apocalypse Series, Acrylic and Oil Paintings, Drawings 1973-1983
• Charcoal Pastel Drawings, California, Maine, France, Switzerland 1946-2008
• Metamorphous Series, Charcoal Pastel Collage Drawings on Museum Board 1987-2008
• Collage Series Drawings, San Francisco, Limington, New paltz, Los Angeles 1958-2008
• Poster Series, 90+ Charcoal Pastel Drawings on Museum Board 1985-2008
• Fayum Portrait Series, Charcoal-Pastel and Fauve Drawings 1992-2008
• Formal and Informal Portraits - Oil Paintings, Drawings, Models, Commissions, Compositions, Re-Creations 1942-2008
• Murals- Commissiond, Given and Inspired Oil paintings, Drawings, Acrylic Paintings, Collage Drawings 1936-2008
• Maquettes-100+ small original Charcoal Pastel Drawings for commissions 1970-2008
• The Great Masters of Art Series 1998-2008
• Flower Oil Paintings on Canvas ( Sunflowers, Hydrangas,etc) 2000-2008
EXHIBITIONS: INTERNATIONAL: COMBINED TOTAL OF 214, INCLUDING 82 ONE_MAN EXHIBITIONS. A SELECTION FOLLOWS.
• Museum of Munich 1948
• Museum of Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico 1952
• Hellenic-American Union, Athens, Greece 1961
• Casa de Cultura, Malaga, Spain 1964
• Exposition Internationale d'Art de Mode, Val de Grace, Paris, France
• 20th Anniversaire Paris American Academy 1985
• Gallery International Inc, St Maarten, Netherlands Antilles 1990-93
• National Museum of Mexico,D.F.1970-2008 Genesis Fresco 12'x35'
• Galerie du Carlton, La Croisette, Cannes, France 1964-78
• Galerie des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France 1966-78
• Galeria "M" Copenhagan, Denmark 1967
• Galerie del Cisne, Madrid, Spain
• Upper Grosvenor Galleries, London England 1966-68
• Kunsthandel Monet, Amsterdam Holland 1960-80
• Harrison Galleries, Vancouver BC Canada 1970-2008
• Guild Gallerie Calgary, Canada 1975-98
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS: USA
• University of Southern California 1950
• Palos Verdes Community Galleries, CA 1955
• Cowie Galleries, Los Angeles, CA 1956
• Los Angeles Municipal Galleries, Barnsdall, CA " Art of the Mural" 1959
• Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1962-63
• Raymond Burr Galleries Beverly Hills, CA 1961-64
• Gallery 235, Chicago,IL 1967
• Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA (Retrospective 1969-2008)
• Lars Laine Art Galleries, Palm Springs, CA 1969-84
• Two Squares Gallery, Denver, CA 1966-70
• Fisk University Art Museum, Nashville TN 1968
• Lewis Galleries, Omaha Nebraska 1973-2008
• Talberts Galleria Tacoma, WA 1978-2008
• Lyon Art Gallery San Francisco CA 1974-1980
• Owl 57 Galleries Woodmere NY 1979-2008
• Walt Kuhn Galleries, Cape Neddick...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Vitrum Umbrae, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Christopher Garvey presents a realistic display of glassware and ceramics set atop a wooden table joined by billiard balls...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Blue Teapot and Roses, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist John Jaster paints a realistic still life of a teapot and flowers. White roses blossom, some with open petals and some still in their colorful buds. Th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Go Astray, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha paints a white horse wading along blooming lotuses in realistic detail. It stands quietly in the shallow waters as the moonlight dreamily glows on the pond. "It seems to have forgotten where it came from and where it is going," says Guigen. He conveys the message of loneliness being a different kind of beauty.
About the Artist
From cross-cultural life experiences, artist Guigen Zha presents conceptual compositions of traditional Chinese art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Pears, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"As an artist, I constantly look for the ordinary to elevate and give it the attention that it deserves," says artist Dwight Smith. "In this painting, it was my wife's dresser. A beautiful rustic antique walked...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Steel Magnolia, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist David Shepherd paints a hyperrealistic image of an eye surrounded by dewy magnolias in full bloom. He explores the idea of united humanity by obscuring the identity of his subject. "As we move forward in history, we move past the limitations of gender and race to see all people as equal and able to have a voice in society and be seen as beautiful," says David. The piece draws a symbolic comparison between the uniqueness of every flower and the singularity of a person.
About the Artist
Canadian artist David Shepherd fuses techniques from both old and modern masters to create contemporary interpretations of the human form. While offering strong nods to pop art and cubism, the work remains grounded by David’s training in 19th Century academic realism. Combining discrete techniques within a single tableau is initially jarring to the viewer, creating an unexpected visual complexity in the work and demonstrating the artist’s breadth of skills. “I think in the future we will be much more interested in works of art that show a mastery of multiple styles,†says David. Each artwork effectually suggests the surreal nature of human existence within a convoluted modern society.
Words that describe this painting: flower, floral, portrait, child, realism, hyperrealism, photorealism, eye, beauty, rainbow, bright, love, petals, detailed, oilpaint, people, people, flora, realism, oil painting, white
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Indian Friendship Dance
By Gene Kloss
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Indian Friendship Dance
Drypoint, 1953
Signed in pencil lower right, (see photo)
Edition 200
Published by The Society of American Graphic Artists, New York
An impression is in the collection of SAAM, Washington and RISD Museum,
Condition: Excellent
Very rich impression with burr and selective whiping of the ink for atmospheric nocturnal effect.
Image/Plate size: 8 3/16 x 11 15/16 inches
Sheet size: 11 1/8 x 17 inches
Reference: Kloss 450
"'Indian Friendship Dance' is an eloquent statement of something which Gene Kloss has both observed and participated in. It is an Indian dance that is thought of as entertainment, rather than ceremony, but it is essentially an idea expressed in action, and an idea that has universal meaning. The young men who dance wear costumes of exquisite workmanship, intricately wrought with beads and feathers and subtle combinations of colors. The dancers are trained from childhood but develop their own steps and exhibit distinctive strength and grace. Singers and a tom-tom accompany the dance and since it usually takes place at night, a campfire is the source of light. The conclusion occurs when all the onlookers, old and young and from many places, join hands with the dancers in a slow revolving movement, while those who can, sing the difficult but meaningful Indian song that flows with the rhythmical dance step and speaks of fellowship, brotherhood, friendship." - An excerpt from a descriptive statement, written by Lynd Ward, and distributed with the drypoint at the time of publication." Courtesy Old Print Shop
Born Alice Glasier in Oakland, CA, Kloss grew up amid the worldly bustle of the San Francisco Bay Area. She attended the University of California at Berkeley, graduating with honors in art in 1924. She discovered her talents in intaglio printmaking during a senior-year course in figurative drawing. The professor, Perham Nahl, held up a print from Kloss’ first plate, still damp from the printing process, and announced that she was destined to become a printmaker.
In 1925, Gene married Phillips Kloss, a poet and composer who became her creative partner for life. The match was uncanny, for in her own way Gene, too, was a poet and a composer. Like poetry, her artworks capture a moment in time; like music, her compositions sing with aesthetic harmony. Although she was largely self-taught, Kloss was a printmaking virtuoso.
On their honeymoon the Klosses traveled east from California, camping along the way. They spent two week is Taos Canyon – with a portable printing press cemented to a rock near their campsite – where Gene learned to appreciate the wealth of artistic subject matter in New Mexico. The landscape, the cultures, and the immense sky left an indelible impression on the couple, who returned every summer until they made Taos their permanent home 20 years later.
Throughout her life, Kloss etched more than 625 copper plates, producing editions ranging from five to 250 prints. She pulled every print in every edition herself, manually cranking the wheel of her geared Sturges press until she finally purchased a motorized one when she was in her 70s. Believing that subject matter dictated technique, she employed etching, drypoint, aquatint, mezzotint, roulette, softground, and a variety of experimental approaches, often combining several techniques on the same plate. She also produced both oil and watercolor paintings.
Kloss’ artworks are filled with drama. Her prints employ striking contrasts of darkness and light, and her subjects are often illuminated by mysterious light sources. Though she was a devout realist, there is also a devout abstraction on Kloss’ work that adds an almost mythical quality.
For six decades Kloss documented the cultures of the region-from images of daily life to those of rarely seen ceremonies. She and her husband shared a profound respect for the land and people, which made them welcome among the Native American and Hispanic communities. Kloss never owned a camera but relied instead on observation and recollection. Her works provide an inside look at the cultures she depicted yet at the same time communicate the awe and freshness of an outsider’s perspective.
Although Kloss is best known for her images of Native American and Penitente scenes, she found artistic inspiration wherever she was. During the early years of their marriage, when she and Phil returned to the Bay Area each winter to care for their aging families, she created images of the California coast. And when the Klosses moved to southwestern Colorado in 1965, she etched the mining towns and mountainous landscapes around her.
In 1970 the Klosses returned to Taos and built a house north of town. Though her artwork continued to grow in popularity, she remained faithful to Taos’ Gallery A, where she insisted that owner Mary Sanchez keep the prices of her work reasonable regardless of its market value. Kloss continued to etch until 1985, when declining health made printmaking too difficult.
From her first exhibition at San Francisco’s exclusive Gump’s in 1937 to her 1972 election to full membership in the National Academy of Design, Kloss experienced a selective fame. She received numerous awards, and though she is not as well known as members of the Taos Society of Artists...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Drypoint
Sitka 15
Located in Burlingame, CA
Robert Gamblin’s intent as an artist is to reach for transcendence through his color-centric oil paintings that capture the majesty of light as it graces the Earth. In this series, o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Original Forbidden Paradise vintage silent movie window card with Pola Negri
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "Forbidden Paradise" vintage silent movie window card. Production from the play "The Czarina" by Lajos Biro and Menyhert Lengyel. This poster has been archivally paper backed and is in excellent condition. This movie window card was printed as a stone lithograph.
Pola Negri was born Apolonia Chalupiec in 1897. She adopted the pseudonym "Pola Negri," after the Italian poetess, Ada Negri.
The Ernst Lubitsch-Pola Negri combination was very successful and the roles that Pola played were earthy, exotic, strong women. One of her films, 'Madame DuBarry...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Your Eye Is A Diamond (ii), Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage," says artist David Shepherd. He presents a vibrant, realistic piece of a face covered in vibrant flowers. A prismatic light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Buddha Head Vase, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
In the style of contemporary realism, artist Guigen Zha paints a porcelain vase of Buddha's head. A bouquet of blue lotus flowers blooms in the oriental still life. Succulent dew drops glaze the delicate petals. Guigen conveys the message of hope and peace for good in life.
About the Artist
Words that describe this painting: healing, lotus, belief, still life, floral, poetic, cultural relics, Tang Sancai, oriental, Asian, Chinese, oilpaint, realism, ceramic, flower, vase, budha, head, vertical, tonal, still life, flora, realism, oil painting, grey
The Buddha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
The Law vs Billy The Kid, original 1954 linen backed US 1 sheet movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
The Law vs. Billy the Kid, is an original 1954 vintage movie poster. Dead for six dollars! Archival linen backed and ready for framing.
This The Law...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Original Your Country Needs You! Join the Navy Now! vintage WW1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster: "Your Country Needs You! Join the Navy Now!"
Original poster printed by the U.S. Food Administration during World War One. Archi...
Category
1910s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large American Modern Stonehenge Landscape Aquatint Etching Philip Pearlstein
Located in Surfside, FL
Philip Pearlstein (American, 1924-2022)
Stonehenge Landscape Sugar Lift Aquatint Etching with Roulette on Rives BFK Paper, 1979
Series: Ruins and Landscapes
Printer: Orlando Condesso
Printer: Nancy Brokopp
Medium: Sugar-lift aquatint with roulette
Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums.
Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army.
In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Aquatint
Snow Round the Pool, Vail, Colorado, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bathers having a winter dip in a pool at Vail, Colorado, March 1964.
Slim Aarons
Snow Round The Pool
Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included.
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Other sizes available from Undercurrent Projects:
60 x 60 inches
$5100 (giclee)
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
20 x 20 inches
$2500
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons *
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Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Vail Photograph, 1960s Photography, Vintage Colorado, Vintage Vail Glamour, Midcentury modern photograph...
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1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
"Perkins Cove" Wooden Boats Tied Up With Glowing Water Reflections
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Perkins Cove" with glowing water reflections of wooden boats tied up to the dock is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful o...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Original 'Funny Lady' U.S. 1-sheet linen backed vintage movie poster 1975
Located in Spokane, WA
Original movie poster: Barbra Streisand and James Caan in Funny Lady. Linen backed one sheet. Orginal theater issue fold marks were touched up during linen backing allowing thi...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Mid-Century Scenic House with Tree Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century watercolor landscape of a charming house with porch rendered in crisp detail, and a sprawling verdant green yard with large tree and sheds by Joseph Yeager (ear...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lucky Luciano, Sicily, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
American Realist art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic American Realist art 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 art 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, yellow and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Slim Aarons, Willard Dixon, Nicholas Evans-Cato, and Mitchell Funk. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil 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 art, so small editions measuring 0.99 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $2,800.
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