American Realist Art

Pencil Study #1 2016 Graphite on paper 10 x 7 inches Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of the...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a co...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a co...

Original. " "Just meet those schedules, will you?" vintage poster. Lithograph. U. S. Army Official Poster. An American pilot, complete with goggles and a flying cap, holds a map up while smiling with a headline of "Just meet those schedules, will you?". Linen-backed and ready to frame World War 2 vintage poster, 1944. This exclusive vintage World War II poster is a rare and beautiful piece of history. This original and authentic poster is truly a sight to behold, showcasing an iconic image of an Army Air Force...

North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph This mid-1955s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an...

Verbier Skier, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph This mid-1960s winter portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a blonde skier on the slopes at ...

North Conway Sleigh, New Hampshire, Estate Edition, Winter Landscape Photograph This mid-1955s winter landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features an...

John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks for handles. Made during Worl...

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...

Christopher Clark's (US based) "Celestial Clouds" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a gymnast in blue with pink and yellow clouds in the background. Bio/artist statement: Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger, and Fender Guitars. Christopher’s painting skills are not his only talent in the arts. He has won several national swing dance championship competitions, and also studies tango and blues dancing. He has played guitar since the age of 12, and during his time as lead guitarist for a rock band, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult and Eddie Money, as well as headlined “the Whisky A Go Go” and “The Roxy” in Hollywood. Christopher has played trombone since high school, and for the last 20 years has played with all-trombone Christmas band in Orange County, California called the Balboa Bachelors, with whom he has played for the Newport Beach Christmas Boat Parade...

This large, billboard-size poster was designed by Bobby Lee Hickson for WNEW Jazz, featuring the legendary Peggy Lee. With its bold composition and striking imagery, this rare promot...

Judd Mercer's "Summer Falls" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a stream cutting through a forest as a log creates a natural bridge over it...

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 8 x 10 inches. Signed lower right. No damage or conservation. Birth place: Cincinnati, OH Addresses: Cincinnati, OH; NYC Profession: Painter, illustrator, etcher, lithographer, cartoonist, teacher Studied: Cincinnati Art Acad.; ASL Exhibited: AIC, 1936, 1938; PAFA Ann., 1936; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1939; GGE, 1939; Paris Salon, 1937; Stockholm, Sweden, 1937-38; Soc. Indep. Artists, 1938; WFNY, 1939; SAE; LOC, 1943-45; Albright-Knox Art Gal., 1951; SAGA, 1951-on; Royal Soc. Painters, Etchers & Engravers, London, England, 1954; Am.-Japan Contemporary Print Exhib., Tokyo, 1967. Awards: first prize in graphics, Cincinnati Mus. Assn., 1939. Member: Cincinnati Assn. Prof. Art; Cincinnati AC; SAE; SAGA Work: MMA; NYPL; CI; Penn. State Univ.; Soc. New York Hospitals. Comments: Contributor: cartoons in Saturday Review, New Yorker. Publications: illustrator, Lamb's Sectional Histories of New York State," Frank E. Richards; illustrator of filmstrips on New York State history produced by Our York State, NY, 1950-; medical illustrator, "A Syllabus for Health Visitors," Navajo Tribal Council, Arizona...

Tully Filmus (1903 - 1998) was a Russian/American artist who was known for his realist drawings of Jewish life. This pastel drawing on paper is signed low...

Diane Thorne: 1895-1963. Listed Canadian artist who was born in Russia. She is best known for her etchings of dogs and children. She has auction results as high as $1300 for a single...

Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Keeler" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and road leading to a small unassuming building. Sometimes they are silent epic lan...

Original half sheet MISS ROBIN CRUSOE. With Amanda Blake, George Nader, Rosalind Hayes. As frenzied as voodoo Drums! As shocking as cannibal rituals! Very good condition, t...

Unframed Dimensions: 36 x 48 inches Framed Dimensions: 41 1/4 x 53 1/4 inches Nicholas Berger Biography American, b. 1949 In his more than three decades as an artist, Nicholas Berg...

Margot Glass reimagines color with her newest specimen, anemones, using luminescent ink to translate vivid shades into bursts of white-gold. Ever-interested in fragility and ephemera...

Short Statements on Painting by Jim Woodson (in no particular order): Remember less, Explore More Learn then forget, then look and discover Move Thought into Thinking A verb is more...

John Stobart "St. Louis, Gateway to the West" Color Lithograph 30 x 42 inches framed Signed in Pencil and Numbered 434/750

Artist: Harry Lane, American (1891 - 1973) Title: Blue Shadows Medium: Oil on Board, signed l.r. Size: 15 in. x 11 in. (38.1 cm x 27.94 cm) Frame Size: 19 x 15 inches

Original WWII poster: Protect his Fugtures buy and Keep War Bonds The color poster shows a young, smiling boy being lifted in the air, holding on to a man's hands. The boy has blond...

This painting is oil on gessobord panel. The overall dimensions including the frame are 17 x 14 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...

Linda Adair's (Germany based) "Outrunning Karma" is an oil painting that depicts a lone female figure shrouded by darkness on all sides. Linda Adair is a...

The Liberty Bond You Buy The Liberty Bond You Buy. Archival linen backed in very good condition; ready to frame. Printer: Liberty Loan Committee Second Federal Reserve District. O...

Original WW1 poster: Keep It Coming: "We Must Not Only Feed Our Soldiers at the Front but Millions of Women & Children Behind Our Lines" ...Waste Nothing. United States Food Administration. General John J. Pershing. The W. F. Powers Co. Litho N.Y. Linen backed. Good condition. Original WW1 lithograph ready to frame. The upper left outside boarder was repaired during the linen backing keeping this poster from being a 100 year old perfect condition vintage poster. This image created by the artist George Illion features a line of trucks with the word food on the side traveling to delivery needed supplies to our troupes and allies. One lone soldier is shown directing the truck traffic to keep moving. The trucks are done in an Army green since many computer monitors display different color tones. The “Keep” and “Coming” are done in a pumpkin orange lettering. This is an original World War 1 poster...

Stunning large scale painting of an early 20th century Braque sailing ship named "Medusa" by Charles Miller (American, 19th/20th Century), 1926. Signed and dated lower left corner. C...

Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring a figure enjoying the view of Angel Island from San Francisco's Crissy Field. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary re...

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

J. F. BUFFORD PUBLISHER and PRINTER LAST MOMENTS OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN, April 15, 1865 Lithograph, very good impression. The 2 lower publishing lines ...

Jerome Liebling (1924-2011) New York, color photograph. Handball Players Miami Beach Florida 1983. Signed on verso. Measures 16" x 20" Unframed. Deaccessioned from Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach. Old South Beach. Jerome Liebling (1924-2011) was born in Harlem and grew up poor in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. A first-generation son of Jewish immigrants from Europe. In 1942, Liebling quit his first semester at Brooklyn College to enlist in World War II. Liebling returned to Brooklyn College in 1946 to study art under the G.I. Bill. Ad Reinhardt taught a Bauhaus-influenced design classes honed his formal sensibility; documentary photographer Walter Rosenblum...

Original Castle Hluboka, Czechoslovakia vintage poster. Czechozlovak State Railways. Lithograph. Archival linen backed. Very fine condi...

John Stobart "St. Louis, A View Through the Arches of the Eads Bridge" 1979 Color Lithograph 32.5 x 37.5 inches framed Signed in Pencil and Numbered 221/75...

Fire Escape Viewing on Stanton Street, 1990 From a 6cm x 9cm negative, scanned in 2020 Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist ...

Herman N. Hyneman (American, 1849-1907) Untitled (Sunset Landscape), 19th Century Oil on canvas 20 1/4 x 26 in. Signed lower right: H. N. Hyneman Herman N. Hyneman was a noted Ameri...

Burton Silverman's "At Long Last", an oil on linen portrait painting dated 2020, is a masterful realist capturing of a contemplative young woman with short hair in modern casual clothes...

Artist: Ben Shahn, Lithuanian/American (1898 - 1969) Title: Many Men from the Rilke Portfolio Year: 1968 Medium: Lithograph on Richard de Bas, signed in the plate Edition Size: 750 S...

Artist: Theo Wujcik, American (1936 - 2014) Title: Jim Dine from the Mentors Series Year: 1976 Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 40 Image Size: 16.5 x 21 inches...

An American Still Life of an Apple, Pear and Grapes Oil on canvas on board Signed illegibly circa late 1800s 9 3/4 x 5 7/8 (16 x 12 3/4 frame) inches This is an example of late 19...

Manhattan Beach, 2003 - Original Black and White Photograph Original black and white photograph of Manhattan Beach, California by Guillermo Zuniga (American). The viewer looks towar...

By A. D. Greer 24" x 36" Oil on Canvas Painting A luminous landscape depicting the essence of wilderness: a breath-taking mountain vista bathed in golden sunlight and swathed in m...

Signed (lower right): Quincy

This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Sicilian-born American gangster Charles 'Lucky' Luciano (1897 - 1962) walking with friends...

MY RADIO FLYER Realist Light and Shadow Oil on Panel 11" x 14" Radio Flyer Wagon is an 11 x 14 ( 17 x 20 framed ) Realism oil on panel painting of the famous Radio Flyer Red Wag...

Original “Gulflex Lubrication for your car” vintage poster. Linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. No tears, no folds, no paper loss. This series of posters for Gulf Oil and Gulflex were designed to be displayed for 2 weeks and then removed. This series of posters for Gulflex Lubrication has a different image at the top. This is one of the most interesting designs with the woman grooming her cocker spaniel and reads “Best Care Pays”. Looking for an original vintage poster to add to your collection? We have a wide selection of original vintage posters for sale, including this striking Gultlex lubrication poster from the mid-20th century. These posters were once used for promoting everything from movies and advertisers to political campaigns...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD Artist Statement I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...

Original Windsor See Britain by Train vintage railroad poster. Linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. No restoration to t...

Original Germany, Bavaria: Munich – the Theatine Church and Felhernhalle vintage poster. Photo by: Jaeger & Goergen, Munich. Printed by the German National Railroad system (Deutsche Reichsbahn). This poster is presumed printed in the 1930s. A lithograph that was printed using blue-toned ink with cream borders. Linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. The Theatiner Church is a colossal-looking ochre-colored church on Odeonsplatz in Munich built 1663-1692. It was the first baroque church in Bavaria and is one of the very few in Germany. The actual, official name of the Theatine Church is St. Kajetan. The big dome in the background is about 70 meters or 230 feet tall. On the left is the Feldherrnhalle. The model for the building on Odeon Square was the Loggia dei Lanzi in central Florence, which was built in the 14th century. The two monumental lions...

Skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire, 1955. New England Skiing Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and s...

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with no...

This artwork "Racoon" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 442/750 in ...

Christopher Clark's (US based) "Cliffs of Vernazza" is an oil painting that depicts a seaside city on the precipice of a steep cliff Bio/artist statement: ...

Gladys 'Patsy' Bartlett (1928 - 2011, née Pulitzer, later Pulitzer Preston) rummaging in her bag on the seat of an open car, 1954. The car is parked by a plane belonging to the Everg...

Beautiful original drawing by American artist, Albert Sway (b.1913). Cincinnati Cityscape, ca. 1935. Ink on paper measures 11 x 17 inches. Signed lower right. Good condition with a 1...