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Style: American Realist
Two Reclining Nudes, Raphael Soyer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Raphael Soyer (1899-1987)
Title: Two Reclining Nudes
Year: Circa 1987
Medium: Watercolor & Pencil Drawing on Archival paper
Size: 17 x 14 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscript...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Pastel, Graphite
$2,076 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Uncle Tom's Cabin vintage movie poster - half sheet
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Uncle Tom's Cabin. Half Sheet; linen backed rereleased 1958 poster. The greatest human drama ever filmed! A cast of thousands! Told by Raymond Massey. A Colorama Features Release. Fine condition.
The ever-mounting Civil Rights movement of 1958 prompted entrepreneurs Jules B. Weill and Carroll L. Puciato to reissue the 1926 screen version of Harriet Beecher Stowe...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Manhattan III
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- We are creatures of habit. Routines help us organize our lives and provide necessary structure to daily existence. The same holds true in the built environment. The city grid...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$11,700
Gowanus Canal, Barge and Crane
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Original Bing Crosby Personality Poster-Parmount Films vintage poster
By Roger Soubie
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Bing Crosby Paramount Films vintage personality poster. Archival linen-backed and ready to frame. There is some foxing along the original fold marks; otherwise, this poster ...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Catch (study), not framed
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Girls Dance Playboy cartoon "They Say Every Little Gesture Has Meaning
Located in Miami, FL
"They Say Every Little Gesture Has a Meaning", Playboy cartoon illustration, August 1968
Pen and watercolor on board
12.5 x 9.5 in. (image)
Signed...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Mill Houses
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Much of Bennett Vadnais’ subject matter comes from his surroundings in Manhattan and Brooklyn. With a strong background in plein air ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Tree Tattoo, not framed
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flower Garden, Cape Cod, Mid-Century Cleveland School Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Carl Frederick Gaertner (American, 1898-1952)
Flower Garden, Cape Cod, c. 1940s
Gouache on illustration board
17.5 x 29 inches
27 x 39 inches, as framed
Carl Gaertner was one of the greatest painters to emerge from the Cleveland School...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Gouache
Horseman and cattle
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Horseman with Cattle" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist John Stanford. It is signed at the lower right corner by...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Court Jester - Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously and carefully rendered period piece that reenact this magicaly moment. Works on Paper, Gouache, Watercolor over traces of pencil heightened with white on illustration ...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
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
Verrazano Bridge Pier, realistic waterscape, NYC
By Gregory Frux
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas
Dr. Rowland S. Russell PhD. writes about his experience directly witnessing Greg's practice as a “plein air” artist:
Whether he’s portraying quiet scenes from Brooklyn...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Pastel
THE PARTISAN (SF Dock strike)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HERMAN VOLZ (Swiss/American 1904 - 1990)
THE PARTISAN, 1937
Lithograph, signed and no. in pencil. Edition 30. 10 1/2 x 14. Sheet 11 1/4 x 17 1/2" Generally good condition aside fro...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Army Poker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s
Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed verso a) “Army Poker / Mervin Honig / 421 W 42 St. N.Y.C.,” b) “Mervin Honig / US Army Air Force – Seymour Johnson Field – Goldsboro, NC / Circa 1943,” and c) “(This painting was done before men was (sic) shipped off to the Mariana Islands (Saipan) The Second World War.” Note: four pencil sketches for this work included
Mervin Honig was a New York-based painter and illustrator who is best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life and sports themes. Honig was raised in Brooklyn and recalled almost never being without a paintbox in hand from the time he started elementary school. Honig had a deep reverence for the Old Master painters, Vermeer and Bellini, as well as the Americans Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. He initially studied art from 1939 through 1941 with Francis Criss. At the outbreak of World War II, Honig worked as a mechanic for Republic Aviation, but in August 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and was stationed at Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the war, Honig began to exhibit nationally, including as part of the Portrait of America exhibitions which originated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveled around the country, as well as at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He painted Army Poker in 1943 while stationed at Johnson Field. In this work, Honig draws inspiration from Paul Cezanne's The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art), with a similar placement of the four figures, but Cezanne's table is replaced with an Army cot, the pipe rack with a soldier's mess kit and the drapery in the right background with a heap of discarded uniforms. Unlike the vibrancy of Cezanne's composition, the limited palette of Honig's work suggests the drabness and monotony of stateside Army life.
After being discharged from military service, Honig furthered his studies with Amadee Ozenfant in 1946 and Hans Hoffman from 1947 through 1950. Additional exhibitions included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Provincetown Art Association, and the National Academies Galleries of the Allied Artists Association. He was represented by the venerable Frank Rehn...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board, Tempera
Golden Rod and other Wildflowers
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): John Ross Key 1882
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Black
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1972
Dylan Stark is a traditional landscape and seascape painter. He is heavily influenced by the luminist style of painting popular among late 19th century American la...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sailing 3, American Realist Lithograph by John McNulty
By John McNulty
Located in Long Island City, NY
John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Sailing 3, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 615/650, Size: 8 x 12 in. (20.32 x 30.4...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
'The Connectors' — Vintage American Realism, New York City
By James Allen
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Allen, 'The Connectors', 1934, etching, edition not stated, Ryan 66. Signed in pencil. A superb, richly-inked impression, on handmade, cream laid paper, with margins (1/2 to 1...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
"Lambert Cove" 2016 small realist landscape painting, Martha's Vineyard, MA
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Lambert Cove was painted en plein-air in Lambert Cove, Massachusetts. A very refined and tight hand from Minoff creates a most-realistic landscape.
Unf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Study for Long Beach" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
"Study for Long Beach" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Daniel Ralph Celantano (1902-1980)
"Study for Long Beach"
8 x 10 inches
Oil on artist bo...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
A Pictorial View of Broadway, 1899 - 74 Chromolithograph plates
Located in Middletown, NY
What did Broadway look like at the turn of the 20th Century? Here is a scarce and important block-by-block view published in 1899 by The Mail and Express
New York: The Mail and Expr...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Before Sunset (Steps Beach)
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marla Korr attended Brooklyn College, earning both a B.A. and a M.F.A. There she studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson and Jimmy Ernst. She has also studied at Stevenson...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Painted Ladies" (2025) By Greg Gandy, Original Realist Oil CItyscape Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Painted Ladies" (2025) is a beautiful handmade impressionist still-life oil painting by American realist Greg Gandy, depicting a view over the Victorian rows of San Francisco, the s...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Sailing 4, American Realist Lithograph by John McNulty
By John McNulty
Located in Long Island City, NY
John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Sailing 4, Year: circa 1981, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 450, Size: 9.5 in. x...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Negro' — California WPA Social Realism – Slavery
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Nicholas Panesis, 'Negro', 1934, color lithograph, edition 18. Signed, dated, titled, and numbered 8/28 in pencil. Initialed in the stone, lower right. A fine impression, with fresh colors, on buff wove paper, with margins (1 1/8 to 2 3/8 inches). Minor glue staining at the extreme sheet edges verso, where previously taped (not visible recto), otherwise in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 10 5/8 x 8 1/2 inches; (270 x 216 mm); sheet size 14 13/16 x 10 15/16 inches (376 x 278 mm).
Created for the California Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project (WPA). Scarce.
Impressions of this work are held in the public collections of La Salle University Art Museum (Philadelphia), U.S. General Services Administration, and Weisman Art Museum (University of Minnesota).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Massachusetts, Nicholas Panesis (1913-1967) studied art at Syracuse University, NY, and went on to teach ceramics at Alfred University, NY.
Panesis moved to San Francisco in the early 1930s shortly before settling in Los Angeles, where he worked for different animation studios...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original Normandie: Le Mont-Saint-Michel (Manche) vintage travel poster on linen
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1958 Normandie Le Mont Saint Michel Travel Poster – Authentic French Vintage Art. Acid-free archival linen backed in Grade A condition, ready to frame.
Step back into the g...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
"En Salada" Salad Fixings Intaglio on Paper by Joseph C. MaCarthy
Located in Soquel, CA
"En Salada" Salad Fixings Etching on Paper by Joseph C. MaCarthy
This Intaglio print, titled "En Salada," by San Francisco Bay area artist Joseph C. McCarthy (American, 20th C), cre...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Intaglio
"Masks We Wear, to Transform", Bird with a Bird Mask Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
3rd Version's (Ben Patterson) "Masks We Wear, to Transform" is a 2022 oil painting on cradled panel measuring 18 x 24 x 1.5 inches. The work is unframed but ready to hang. Centered a...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Original 6 Cylindres Berliet automobile black and white vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 6 Cylindres Berliet black and white vintage poster. Archival linen backed and ready to frame. The New six-cylinder models were introduced in 1927.
Berliet was a French manufacturer of automobiles, buses, trucks, and military vehicles among other vehicles based in Vénissieux, outside of Lyon, France. Founded in 1899, and apart from a five-year period from 1944 to 1949 when it was put into 'administration sequestre' it was in private ownership until 1967 when it then became part of Citroën, and subsequently acquired by Renault in 1974.
Black and white posters are a rarity as far as antiques go...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Crying Child in Stroller, Vintage Print - Female Street Photographer
By Vivian Maier
Located in Miami, FL
Female Street Photographer Vivian Maier captures a riveting moment of a child consumed in grief. The physiological and psychological anguish dominates her...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Focus, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Being a single father and working a full-time job limits the time I have to paint," shares artist Christopher Garvey. "This...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
'The Artist's Garden', Munich Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, PAFA, Corcoran
By Julius Moessel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left 'Moessel' for Julius Moessel (American, 1872-1960) and dated 1943; additionally titled verso, 'In the Artist's Garden'.
A substantial, mid-century horticultural oi...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ice" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Ice" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and a small unassuming building.
Sometimes they are silent epic landscapes of the Dese...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Under the Surface
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Linen
Barges, Smoke
Located in Fairfield, CT
Derek Buckner is represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Born in 1970, Derek Buckner lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, novelist Joanna Hershon, their twin sons and daug...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Burning Off
By Peter Poskas
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1939
Prominent 21th Century American landscape artist Peter Poskas has been painting New England for more than three decades. While his earliest pieces were reminiscent of Edward Hopper...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Woman with ice Cream - Black and White Monochrome Photographic Print
Located in Brighton, GB
'Woman with ice Cream' is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in a limited edition of 10 by Michael Ormerod.
Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibition, '...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Black and White
George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"The Great Man Comes to Take His Oath" Life Magazine Spread, July 4th, 1960, This epic narrative depicts the celebration of George Washington's inauguration, en route to Federal Hall...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$92,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Life is Just a Basket of...
Located in Wenham, MA
Dale Zinkowski is a master of still life. His work, reminiscent of Golden Age Dutch still life painting, glows with light and subtle, quiet beauty. This original oil painting shows ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
“Walking Among the Trees” A Winter Scene in Blue, Gray & White
Located in San Francisco, CA
Out for a breath of fresh air late on a wintery day, this adult and child are walking in a world of wonder in this painting. Crunching on the ice covering the shoveled pathway, the p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Crossing" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Crossing" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and a weathered crossing sign.
Sometimes they are silent epic landscapes of the ...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
Blue Notes
By Matt Condron
Located in Fairfield, CT
Having spent many years as a photographer, Matt Condron is trained to recognize the importance of a moment or the preciousness of a fleeting opportunity. He is captivated by the ide...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$11,000
Marbella Club, Spain, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a guest taking a break from the sun at the Marbella Club, Marbella, Spain.
This is an esta...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Grey Gate, American Realist Screenprint by Lorna Patrick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lorna Patrick, American - Grey Gate, Year: 1980, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: CLXV, Image Size: 24 x 36 inches, Size: 32 x 42 in. (81.28 x 106....
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Screen
At the Clinton Station Diner, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The Clinton Station Diner is one of New Jersey's landmark diners. I was seated in this particular room that is actually a salvaged train dining car. I could n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"The Lithographs and Etchings of Philip Pearlstein"
Located in New York, NY
Philip Pearlstein
"The Lithographs and Etchings of Philip Pearlstein"
Boston University Art Gallery, 1979
Exhibition poster
25 x 32.5 inches
Signed recto
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Good Takings, American Western Art Gouache Painting on Board by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Good Takings, Year: 1991, Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated l.r., Size: 10 in. x 17 in. (25.4 cm x 43.18 cm), Frame Size: 17.5 x 2...
Category
1990s American Realist Art
Materials
Gouache
Sitting Nude exudes sexuality
Located in Miami, FL
The key element to this work is that it is much larger that most of the other works on paper by Lachaise and somewhat more delineated and refined . The figure exudes sexuality has a...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Pencil
View from the Train, L.A. River
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --When asked what kind of paintings I make, I usually call my work "Urban Landscapes" to distinguish them as paintings about areas of h...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Neuron
By Oleg Lobykin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Neuron', evolved from prior works arising from the search for the origins of form, highlighting negative and positive space in balance. Space + Line = Form. This bronze sculpture is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Fiberglass
$18,000
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
By Jo Cain
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Man Working Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern WPA
Jo Cain (1904 - 2003)
Hammering Nails
39 x 50 ½ inches
Gouache on paper c. 19...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Still Life with Men in Doublets
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. It features a beautiful bouquet of Spring flowers: tulips, hydrangea, sweet william, and stock. They are held in a jaunty pitcher wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Man in Headband
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Man in Headband, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Studio stamp on verso. The print was us...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$975 Sale Price
35% Off
Shoreline Cloudscape, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Nancy Hughes Miller paints a majestic seaward skyline with tinges of periwinkle. Inspired by her time on the coasts of North Carolina, she displays a d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Coit Tower: SF)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Stephan Hoffpauir’s photorealistic watercolors invite viewers to contemplate spaces that, while familiar, are largely ignored by those who fleetingly pass through them. Among his sub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
New York Skyline
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
A superb impression in warm black ink, on cream, laid paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 3/4 inches); original brown paper hinges on the top sheet edge recto, in excellen...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
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