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Style: American Realist
Ride Em Vaquero
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Ride Em Vaquero" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by American artist Vic Herman, 1919-1999. It is hand signed and numbered 73/300 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 8.5 x 22 inches, sheet size is 21.5 x 28 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed.
About the artist:
Vic Herman was born in Fall River, Massachusetts. When Herman was one-year-old his father, who played in the famous Paul Whiteman band, moved the family to Los Angeles where they settled in the Mexican district of the city where young Vic grew up. He attended classes, through junior high school, in all Mexican-American schools, learned to speak Spanish, and grew to love his Mexican-American neighbors and their culture. Says Herman, "If the many peoples of Mexico, when seeing my exhibitions, accept my paintings as authentic in telling the story of their daily lives, and if the peoples of the United States understand the dignity, culture and arts of the Mexican peoples, They refer to him affectionately as "Papa Victorio. Having chosen his subject, Herman next proceeds to capture his or her likeness with a careful pencil drawing-with or without the subject's knowledge. brought home in this manner. A remarkable feature of Herman's method is his interpretation of mixed media. For Herman this means combining any number of different media such as oil, watercolor, casein, acrylic, tempera, pencil, pastel or India ink; once he used as many as eight. In 1969, during the bicentennial celebration of the founding of San Diego, Herman was awarded a Medallion of Honor for his part in furthering good relations between Mexico and the United States. Recently, he has been proposed as a candidate for the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor Mexico can grant to a foreigner for promoting better cultural relations between Mexico and his country, Mexico SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles Lincoln Center Gallery of Fine Arts, New York United States Embassy Gallery, Mexico City Westchester County Art Center, New York David E. Field Gallery, New York Palace of Fine Arts, Mexico City Galeria of Contemporary Arts, Beverly Hills Spanish Monastery Gallery, Miami World's Fair Spanish Pavilion Gallery, St. Louis Chicago Press Club Gallery, 1973 & 1976 Civic Center Gallery, San Diego Mexican Consulate General Gallery, Phoenix Gimbels Department Store Gallery James Aldrich Gallery, Houston, Texas Thackery Gallery, San Diego Foreign Correspondent Gallery, Mexico City 1965 & 1967 La Jolla Art Association Gallery, La Jolla, California Municipal Gallery, Veracruz, Mexico Lawrence W. Hellman Gallery, Indianapolis, Indiana Galeria Misrachi, Mexico City San Diego Art Institute Gallery, San Diego Galeria Instituto de ARtes, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Bullocks Department Store Gallery, Sherman Oaks, California Municipal Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico Municipal Gallery, Zacatecas, Mexico Famous Baar Gallery, St. Louis United States Consulate General Gallery, Tijuana, Mexico May Company Department Store Galleries Art Students League, New York California Expo. Gallery, Del Mar, California Galeria Instituto Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico United States Information Service Gallery, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico University of Sonora Gallery, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico Mexican Consul General Gallery, Boston Mexican Consul General Gallery, Los Angeles Mexican Consul General Gallery, New York Theodore Greene Gallery, New Rochelle, New York Miami City Convention Center Gallery, Miami, Florida Cheremoya Arts Council Gallery, Hollywood, California Arizona State University Gallery, Tempe, Arizona Balboa Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, California SELECTED IMPORTANT COLLECTIONS 'The Vic Herman Collection' '-Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial Library, Hyde Park, New York General & Mrs. Omar Bradley-Beverly Hills, California The Estate of the late Rube Goldberg-New York City Senator & Mrs. George Murphy-Beverly Hills, California Mr. & Mrs. Fred Waring-Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pennsylvania Dr. & Mrs. Eugenio V. Pesqueira (Mexican Consul General-NYC) The Estate of the late Mayor of New York, Fiorello LaGuardia...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Dragon, " Original Pastel Drawing
By Quang Ho
Located in Denver, CO
"Dragon," by Quang Ho, is a secondary market work with one previous owner. It is signed and dated (1988) on the lower left. The painting comes with it's original frame (measures 50 x...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Chestnut Racehorse with a Jockey Up On a Training Strap
By Henry H. Cross
Located in New York, NY
It was Henry Cross's portraits of horses belonging to the prominent breeders and trainers of the second half of the nineteenth century that won the artist renown as an animal painter. Born and raised in upstate New York, Cross's proficiency in both drafting and caricature was revealed while he was still a student at the Binghamton Academy, New York. In 1852, when he was only fifteen years old, Cross joined a traveling circus that took him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and to the first of many Indian encampments that he would draw upon for subject matter throughout his career. Biographers differ as to the year Cross left for Europe, however, he was in Paris from 1852 to 1853 or 1854, where he studied with Rosa Bonheur, a highly esteemed French painter of horses. Upon Cross's return to the United States he was commissioned to paint the studs of wealthy horsemen, including those of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert Bonner, the owner-publisher of The New York Ledger, and "Copper King" Marcus Daly, whose 18,000 acre stock farm was reputed to be the greatest and most valuable horse ranch in the world.
Although Cross received the highest pay of any equine artist of his day (up to $35,000. for one order, according to The Horse Review of April 10, 1918, p. 328), he frequently joined traveling circuses and painted the locales where they visited. He also painted portraits of notable contemporaries, such as President Abraham Lincoln, ex-president Ulysses S. Grant, King Edward VII of England, W. F. "Buffalo Bill...
Category
19th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Shoes" - Late 20th Century City Figure Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
In addition to having his work in museums and fine corporate collections, Alabama artist Donny Finley showed for years at prestigious Bryant Galleries on ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Chasing Lancelot, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Traveling in England's Cotswolds region, I sought out a number of impressive gardens designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown," shares artist Mandy Main. "This estate, Croome Court, has a colorful history, including its 1979 purchase by John Lennon for use as a Hare Krishna...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Dockside
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Dockside" 1950, is an original lithograph on paper by noted naval American artist Gordon Hope Grant, 1875-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. The a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Dancer in White
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Pastel, Cardboard
Tahoe Evening, Winter
Located in Burlingame, CA
People enjoying the setting sun on a frozen Lake at Tahoe, with cascading evening light and majestic alpine mountain ridge in the distance. Willard Dixon is one of our finest American contemporary realist painters, who has painted Northern California coastal landscapes for over 35 years. His work captures the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Oakland Museum of California.
Tahoe Evening I is 36 x 54 inches. The work of art comes to you framed in a light wood floater frame and is ready to hang and enjoy for years to come. Artist signed and dated. Condition is excellent. Presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
The San Francisco Art Commission
AMA Headquarters, washington, D.C.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co., S.F. CA.
Transamerica Headquarters,S.F., CA.
San Francisco International Airport
IBM Corporation, San Jose, CA.
Pacific Bell
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mr. Harrison Ford
Mr. Peter Duchin
Ms. Linda Ronstadt
Ms Faye Dunaway
Mr. Peter Morton
Mrs. H.J. Heinze
Mr Rupert Lowenstein
Mr. Chappy Morris
Mr. Griffen Dunne
Margy Boyd
Caroline Graham
Mr. Richard Baker
Ms. Sabrina Guinness
Mr. Peter Asher...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Union Street, San Francisco
By Edith (Mark) Milsk
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Union Street, San Francisco" is an original etching on creme wove paper by American artist Edith (Mark) Milsk, 1899-1982. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (Image) size is 5.5 x 3.65 inches, framed size is 16.5 x 13.40 inches. Custom framed in a red Oak frame, with beige matting. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Edith Milsk...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
"You May Get Wet" - Santa Cruz Boardwalk Color Photograph
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful color photograph of the roller coaster and palm trees at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943)....
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Original "The Walls of Jericho" vintage movie poster US half sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
The Walls of Jericho." This is an original 1948 half-sheet movie poster for the film " The poster features a striking image of Cornel Wilde and Linda Darnell...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
$238 Sale Price
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Winter Sunset
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Winter Sunset" c.1990, is an oil painting (mixed media) on hardboard by German/American artist Frank Kecskes Jr. It is signed at the lower right corner by the ar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Horses Leaving the Barn
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Horses Leaving the Barn
Watercolor on paper, 1940
Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo)
Condition: Excellent
Image: 14 1/2 x 21”
Frame: 25” x 31”
Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label)
Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst
Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist.
Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist.
Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement.
Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon.
Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville.
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Eileen Lake
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Eileen Lake
Crayon on paper, early1930's
Initialed in pencil lower right (see photo)
Titled and annotated verso "Eileen Lake, early 1930s girlfriend"
Note: Eileen Hall Lake was an American poet and Adolf Dehn's girlfriend in the early 1930s.
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
By descent
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895-1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs. In many ways Dehn’s later artistic achievement was clearly a reaction against the grinding rural poverty of his childhood.
After graduating from high school in 1914 at the age of 19—an age not unusual in farming communities at the time, where school attendance was often irregular—Dehn attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1914 to 1917, whose character followed strongly reflected that of its director, Munich-trained Robert Kohler, an artistic conservative but a social radical. There Dehn joined a group of students who went on to nationally significant careers, including Wanda Gag (later author of best-selling children’s books); John Flanagan (a sculptor notable for his use of direct carving) Harry Gottlieb (a notable social realist and member of the Woodstock Art Colony), Elizabeth Olds (a printmaker and administrator for the WPA), Arnold Blanch (landscape, still-life and figure painter, and member of the Woodstock group), Lucille Lunquist, later Lucille Blanch (also a gifted painter and founder of the Woodstock art colony), and Johan Egilrud (who stayed in Minneapolis and became a journalist and poet).
Adolf became particularly close to Wanda Gag (1893-1946), with whom he established an intense but platonic relationship. Two years older than he, Gag was the daughter of a Bohemian artist and decorator, Anton Gag, who had died in 1908. After her husband died, Wanda’s mother, Lizzi Gag, became a helpless invalid, so Wanda was entrusted with the task of raising and financially supporting her six younger siblings. This endowed her with toughness and an independent streak, but nonetheless, when she met Dehn, Wanda was Victorian and conventional in her artistic taste and social values. Dehn was more socially radical, and introduced her to radical ideas about politics and free love, as well as to socialist publications such as The Masses and The Appeal to Reason.
Never very interested in oil painting, in Minneapolis Dehn focused on caricature and illustration--often of a humorous or politically radical character. In 1917 both Dehn and Wanda won scholarships to attend the Art Students League, and consequently, in the fall of that year both moved to New York. Dehn’s art education, however, ended in the summer of 1918, shortly after the United States entered World War I, when he was drafted to serve in the U. S. Army. Unwilling to fight, he applied for status as a conscientious objector, but was first imprisoned, then segregated in semi-imprisonment with other Pacifists, until the war ended. The abuse he suffered at this time may well explain his later withdrawal from taking political stands or making art of an overtly political nature. After his release from the army, Dehn returned to New York where he fell under the spell of the radical cartoonist Boardman Robinson and produced his first lithographs. He also finally consummated his sexual relationship with Wanda Gag.
The Years in Europe: 1922-1929
In September of 1921, however, he abruptly departed for Europe, arriving in Paris and then moving on to Vienna. There in the winter of 1922 he fell in love with a Russian dancer, Mura Zipperovitch, ending his seven-year relationship with Wanda Gag. He and Mura were married in 1926. It was also in Vienna that he produced his first notable artistic work.
Influenced by European artists such as Jules Pascin and Georg Grosz, Dehn began producing drawings of people in cafes, streets, and parks, which while mostly executed in his studio, were based on spontaneous life studies and have an expressive, sometimes almost childishly wandering quality of line. The mixture of sophistication and naiveté in these drawings was new to American audiences, as was the raciness of their subject matter, which often featured pleasure-seekers, prostitutes or scenes of sexual dalliance, presented with a strong element of caricature. Some of these drawings contain an element of social criticism, reminiscent of that found in the work of George Grosz, although Dehn’s work tended to focus on humorous commentary rather than savagely attacking his subjects or making a partisan political statement. Many Americans, including some who had originally been supporters of Dehn such as Boardman Robinson, were shocked by these European drawings, although George Grocz (who became a friend of the artist in this period) admired them, and recognized that Dehn could also bring a new vision to America subject matter. As he told Dehn: “You will do things in America which haven’t been done, which need to be done, which only you can do—as far at least as I know America.”
A key factor in Dehn’s artistic evolution at this time was his association with Scofield Thayer...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil Crayon
Man Holding Hat
Located in Middletown, NY
New York: Sylvan Cole, 1929.
Etching on white wove Rives paper with an infinity watermark, 5 15/16 x 3 15/16 inches (151 x 100 mm); sheet 15 7/16 x 11 15/16 inches (392 x 303 mm), f...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Drypoint, Aquatint
Slim Aarons, ;Golfing Pals' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
At the 16th hole on Pebble Beach golf course, singer and film star Bing Crosby (in red) and A Thomas Taylor, 1977
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Undercurr...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
"Sun Breaking Through/Port Salerno" - 2023 American Realist seascape in Florida
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An Oil painting of boats in a marina. Above, the suns rays pierce through the clouds.
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at nocturne scenes which ooze in d...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Tulips in a Round Vase
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, titled "Tulips in a Round Vase" and dated 2000, is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by noted American artist Gary Bukovnik, born 1947. It is signed and numb...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Buds, Still Life Silkscreen by Jack Beal
By Jack Beal
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Beal, American (1931 - 2013)
Title: Buds
Year: circa 1975
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 50
Size: 31 in. x 41 in. (78.74 cm x 104.14 cm)
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Screen
Redwoods on a Foggy Coast, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"As foggy headlands shift shape on the horizon, redwoods materialize out of a palette of grays and blues in this painting of California's Big Sur," says artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Reclining Figure" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Reclining Figure" is an oil painting that depicts a woman in white reclining in a deep blue interior
Bio/artist statem...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In Solitude, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A delicate portrait of a Canada goose against a pastel backdrop. "Spending time alone in nature is something I take advantage of whenever possible," shares ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Guy Lipscomb South Carolina Dunes
By Guy Lipscomb
Located in San Francisco, CA
Guy Lipscomb:1917-2009. Listed American artist from South Carolina. He is best known for doing these watercolors of the beach dunes. This wonderful watercolor measures 20 inches wide...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
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
$680 Sale Price
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Pondering Realist, Light/ Shadow Oil Painting 20"x16" Landscape Cattle
By Luke Autrey
Located in Houston, TX
Pondering Realist, Light/ Shadow Oil Painting 20"x16" Landscape Cattle . The eighth painting shows how the painting will be after a professional photo by 2/14.. The next is the f...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Untitled
By Carolyn Bullis Blish
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is a watercolor on paper by noted artist Carolyn Bullis Blish, born 1928. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 17 x 26 inches, framed is 28 x 37 inches. Framed in his original wooden gold and mahogany color frame. The artwork is in excellent condition, the frame is in very good condition, with very minor small dents and scratches, hardly visible.
About the artist.
A former model, actress, and newscaster, artist Carolyn Blish is known primarily for her watercolor landscapes. She received a very short training in painting under the tutelage of artist Edgar...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
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 Art
Materials
Oil
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 Art
Materials
Oil
Gabriella
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Gabriella" c.1980 is an original colors lithograph on Wove paper by noted American artist Sheldon C. Schoneberg, 1926-2012. It is hand signed and inscribed A.P. (Artist Proof) in pencil by the artist. The image size is 24 x 18.75 inches, sheet size is 26 x 20 inches. 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
"Fallow Fields" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lani Vlaanderen's (US based) "Fallow Fields" is an oil painting that depicts two working horses plowing a field with dust billowing around them.
Bio/artist statement:
Living in the mountains near Rocky Mountain National Park Lani is never lacking something inspiring to paint, be it a grand sunrise on Long's Peak or a small sparrow perched on a pine branch. All fill her with the desire to put paint to canvas. Her goal is not to replicate what she sees, but to express her emotional response from the source of inspiration visually in paint and convey it to the world. She wants to communicate the awe she feels when in the natural world and the joy she experiences from seeing even the seemingly most insignificant moment in time that will never come again. She strives to convey her belief that all things, all beings, all life and non-life, share equal significance and are essential to the whole.
"I began my art quest by taking a few classes at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, then enrolled in Kim English's class at the Art Student's Leaque of Denver. After four years with Kim and functioning as his class monitor, I had the opportunity to participate in a painting group with Richard Schmid in Loveland Colorado. I painted there with him for six years. I have taken workshops from such masters as David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$2,720 Sale Price
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Siesta
Located in Fairfield, CT
Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a point of departure for poetic homages to...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
$20,800 Sale Price
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St. Moritz Top of the World original vintage Suisse travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original St. Moritz, the 1970s Swiss vintage travel poster ("Suisse Schweiz Switzerland"; "Top of the World") encouraging people to visit ...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
$679 Sale Price
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A White Rose Realism Oil on Canvas Gallery Wrapped Floral 20" x 20"
Located in Houston, TX
White Rose by Susan Meeks was just painted in 2024 as part of her floral collection. White Roses is framed.
White roses symbolize loyalty, purity, and innocence. "Since they repres...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Portrait of a Ballerina - Hand Painted Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957.
Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Photographic Paper
$440 Sale Price
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Midnight Forest
Located in Burlingame, CA
With Stephanie Peek’s lush, tropical scene — inspired by La Grande Serre public garden in Paris — she has created an environment for refuge and renewal. By focusing on a single subje...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Last Wave, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jesse Aldana paints a dramatic shoreline view of the Santa Monica Bay. A surfer lines up a final ride as evening deepens under heavy blanket clouds. In...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Americana Winter Scene Ice Skaters Mid-Century- Norman Rockwell America
Located in Miami, FL
This charming rural winter scene of ice skaters fully displays Norman Rockwell's America, but it was painted by female artist Charlotte Joan Sternberg. She combines the mid-century A...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Egg Tempera
"Speak" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Bernard Lee's (US based) "Speak" is an oil painting that depicts a figure with a yellow background and doves flying past them
Artist Bio/statement:
Berna...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Original 'The Evergreen Playground' Easter Washington State map
Located in Spokane, WA
Original The Evergreen Playground Kroll Map Company vintage poster. Archival linen backed in fine condition. A- condition with only 1 small repair on the outer border in the white area. No tears nor stains.
This map was originally drawn during the Great Depression by Ed Poland, Chief Cartographer of many years here at Kroll Map Company. A pictorial bird's eye view of the Puget Sound...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$760 Sale Price
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"Les Andelys at Dawn" view of French village from hilltop, painted en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Les Andelys at Dawn" is the view of this French village from a hilltop, painted en plein air.
Frame Dimensions 41.5 x 53in
Marc Dalessio was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Golden Hills XXIV, Oil Painting
By Mandy Main
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
An uplifting, light-filled landscape that combines old world realism with a modern aesthetic. Cumulus clouds gather at the horizon and sweep upward across the sky, enlivening the landscape. The cool blues of the sky contrast with the warm oranges and ochres of the hills. The long horizontal format gives a contemporary feel and a sense of calm.
About the Artist
Mandy Main is an art historian and landscape painter based in the Southern California desert. She has long been passionate about 19th Century American landscape paintings, which has been influential in her artistic practice. Mandy works in series, generally three paintings at a time. Her process begins with a vision of a place she has been, but she takes creative liberties with the aesthetic details. The artist is captivated by light and shadow, and strives to instill her work with moody drama through the representation of these elements. Using layers of paint and glazes, Mandy achieves mesmerizing atmospheric depth, encouraging the viewer to gaze and be still.
Words that describe this painting: landscape, realism, nature, clouds, sky, sunlight, countryside, panoramic, hills , landscape, realism, representational, oil painting, blue
Golden Hills...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Original "Bern Svizzera" blind scale of justice vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Bern - Switzerland. Artist: Leutenegger. Year: 1941. Archival linen backed with some minor wear. B condition
The name of this statue is also known as Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen.
The blind scales of justice...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
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Sunset at Moss Creek, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Kent Sullivan expresses a marshland drenched in a warm sunset. "In the Evening crickets start to chirp and the glow of lat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
You Look Wonderful: Ski Champion Max Rieger & writer Meg O'Neil. Caucasus, Gudari
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1990: Alpine ski champion Max Rieger on the balcony of a villa in Gudari, in the Caucasus mountains,Georgia. With him is Meg O'Neil dressed in ski suit designed by Bogner and wearing with it an Aeroflot flight cap...
Category
1990s American Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Battlesea, the T-More Mare, Horse Painting by Helene Alison
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Helene Alison, American (XXth)
Title: Battlesea, The T-More Mare
Year: 1977
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l.
Size: 20 x 20 inches
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Winter Tracery (Milford Connecticut)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled 'Winter Tracery (Milford Connecticut)" is an original drypoint etching by noted American artist Philip Kappel, 1901-1981. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (Image) size is 9 x 12 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 21.25 inches. Custom framed in a wooden light grey frame, with light grey matting and black color fillet. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Philip Kappel — painter, illustrator, printer, writer, and lecturer — was born on February 10, 1901 in Hartford, CT and died in 1981. Kappel is best remembered for his landscapes, portraits, figures, marine, lithography, and etching. He held a teaching position with H. B. Snell, Boothbay, ME Studios, 1923 and 1924. His addresses in 1929 were 500 Fifth Avenue in New York City and, for the summer, care of Philip Little, 10 Chestnut Street, Salem, MA; and in 1935, Sarasota, FL.
Kappel was a pupil of the Pratt Institute Art School in Brooklyn, NY and Philip Little (1857-1942) and held memberships with the North Shore Artists Association in Gloucester, MA; the Marblehead...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
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 Art
Materials
Oil
Two Peas in a Pod, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Two geese turn to regard the viewer along the grassy bank of a quiet lake. "Growing up with my older sister, my mom would always dress us in the exact same clothes," shares Jo Galang. "With the same haircut and similar looks, people would always mistake us for twins since we were almost the same size and height. It was fun back then but as we grew up, we each evolved into our own distinct personalities."
About the Artist
Artist Jo Galang expresses a quiet nostalgia in her airy interpretations of the landscapes and waterways of the Pacific Northwest. Her soft oil paintings capture the meditative sounds of rivers and waterfalls flowing past her easel. During the summer, she spends as much time as possible outside creating plein air sketches and studying the light on the landscape. As a young art student in the Philippines, Jo was privileged to study with the renowned painter Danilo Dalena, who she says encouraged her to be the artist she is today. "I believe my art looks simple enough that people have no idea how much time I have spent working on it," she says. When she is not painting, Jo and her husband enjoy taking road trips, playing cards and finding creative ways to spend time with their granddaughter.
Words that describe this painting: animals, birds, Canada geese, geese, lake, landscape, nature, summer, water, waterfowl, grass, classical, wildlife, animals, classical, realism, representational, oil painting, green
Two Peas in a Pod...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
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
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
'Cafe au Lait' - still life painting - ordinary objects - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Cafe au Lait" is a still life watercolor painting featuring hues of grey, brown 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
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Hey Friend, Why the Long Face?, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"These two friends were at the Santa Fe rodeo grounds, early in the morning, just after they were fed," shares artist Heather Foster. "They were relaxed toget...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
"Naughty Children" on Canvas by Harold Stephenson, Aka Abruzzi
By Harold Stephenson
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting features two children with big brown eyes peeking behind red-slatted shutters. The innocence on their faces contrasts with some sense of embarrassment, like if they had...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$600 Sale Price
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New England Child Skiing, Estate Edition, Midcentury New Hampshire Snowscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this classic black and white midcentury winter snowscape, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, a young skier prefers to carry his own skis down the slope in New Hampshire...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
"Blues In The Bay" Wooden Boat Tied Up With Glowing Water Reflections
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Blues In The Bay" with glowing water reflections of a wooden boat tied up to the pier is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This color...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"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
$2,280 Sale Price
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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
$1,000 Sale Price
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"Mexican Hat Flower" Realistic Painting of a Wildflower Botanical Plant Nature
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on Canvas
Canvas Size: 10 x 8 in.
Frame Size: 12 x 9.5 in.
A colorful, naturalistic oil on canvas study of a wild botanical native to Central Texas. Mexican hat flowers blanket ...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
The World We Live In
Birds of Paradise
Life Magazine Illustration ...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Gouache, Board
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 Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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