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Style: American Realist
Salvador Dali's Party, Estate Edition Photograph [Surrealist Dinner, Green+Red]
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1959: Surrealist painter Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) with a red-haired woman in a green dress at a vintage ball in New York. The artist is captured with his characteristic walking st...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
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The Basket Dancers Bronze Sculpture Statue Young Native Pueblo Women New Mexico
Located in Portland, OR
A fine & large bronze sculpture "Basket Dancers", by the celebrated American sculptor Glenna Goodacre (1939-2020).
A beautiful and sensitively rendered bronze sculptural group depict...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
"Savannah Shadows" Colorful Street Scene
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Savannah Shadows" is a colorful sun lit scene of a tree shaded street in this charming city, and is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful oil pain...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
MORNING IN YOSEMITE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD L. DOOLITTLE (1883 - 1974)
MORNING IN YOSEMITE c 1938
Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil by the artist. Plate size 13 3/8 x 9 3/4". Sheet 16 x 11 1/8" with deckle edges.
Doolittle was a renaissance man. His day job was as an engineer for the Edison Electric Co. But he produced an outstanding body of prints for 5 decades as well as photographs. His very rare arts and crafts furniture is highly sought after. He was a long time member and officer in the California Print...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Aquatint
Near Westport, Ireland”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor on archival paper of a location near Westport, Ireland, most likely Clew Bay by the very well known American artist, Adolf Arthur Dehn. Signed by the artist low...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Late in the Evening
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on linen canvas. It features blue and white porcelain vases and deep purple dahlias. Its overall framed dimensions are approximately 40x45 inch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Wyeth, Burning Off, The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Art in America, New York in an edition of CDVII/D. From the folio, The Four Se...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
By Stuart Davis
Located in New York, NY
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Street Riot Oil Painting Mounted Police WPA artist Social Justice Americana Art
By Arthur Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
Riot, Revolution, Police figures on Horseback in City Streets.
Hand signed lower right.
Painting measures 6 x 12, framed 9 x 15 inches.
Arthur Smith is a listed American painter mos...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Apple Orchard with Crows
Located in Dallas, TX
"Apple Orchard with Crows" by artist Miles Cleveland Goodwin is oil on canvas, and measures 30 x 40 inches. Including the artist-made frame, the overall dimensions are 31 1/2 x 41 1/...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
President Jimmy Carter
Located in New York, NY
President Jimmy Carter
Archival pigment print
48 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered
edition of 10
William Coupon is an American photographer, born in New York City, known principally...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sitka 18
Located in Burlingame, CA
Robert Gamblin’s intent as an artist is to reach for transcendence through his color-centric oil paintings that capture the majesty of light as it graces the Earth. In this series, o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Her Room
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel by American artist, Ginny (GC) Williams. Its framed measurements are 14.5x14.5 inches.
GC Williams has a degree in art history which gave her an understanding of, and appreciation for, not only the art of the past, but the historical events and ideologies that fostered various aesthetics, movements, and styles.
She has studied at several classical ateliers, including three years at Boston's Academy of Realist Art. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the US and is included in public and private collections. She maintains a studio on the north shore of Massachusetts.
"My work is about the little moments of beauty that comprise our existence: the greening of the landscape in early spring, the glint of light on an object; growing things and made objects. I enjoy creating interesting interactions, and making up narratives. I love the way light animates objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
We Shall Not Talk of War, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - We Shall Not Talk of War, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 x 25 inc...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Riders Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism WPA Modern 1930s
Daniel Celentano (1902 - 1980)
Subway Scene, 1930s
8 x 9 inches
Ink and wash on paper
Singed lower ...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Eden Hartford, Hollywood, Estate Edition, Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features actress Eden Hartford, sister to Dee, in the Hollywood home she shared with her husband, co...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
"Gardenias in Juliska Vase" - Still Life - American Realist Painting - botanical
By Sarah Lamb
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Gardenias in Juliska Vase" is a still life painting featuring hues of green, white, and dark blue.
Sarah Lamb is inspired by the work of John Singer Sar...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Her Room
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel by American artist, Ginny (GC) Williams. Its framed measurements are 14.5x14.5 inches.
GC Williams has a degree in art history which gave her an understanding of, and appreciation for, not only the art of the past, but the historical events and ideologies that fostered various aesthetics, movements, and styles.
She has studied at several classical ateliers, including three years at Boston's Academy of Realist Art. Her work has been shown in galleries throughout the US and is included in public and private collections. She maintains a studio on the north shore of Massachusetts.
"My work is about the little moments of beauty that comprise our existence: the greening of the landscape in early spring, the glint of light on an object; growing things and made objects. I enjoy creating interesting interactions, and making up narratives. I love the way light animates objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Broadway Parade
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Broadway Parade
Lithograph, 1934-1935
Signed, titled and editoned in pencil (see photos)
Printer: George Miller, New York
Edition: 100, plus trial proofs
Printed on cine collee
Creat...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE BURRO STATION - Large Etching with Incredible Detail. One of a Pair
Located in Santa Monica, CA
REYNOLD WEIDENAAR (1915 - 1985)
THE BURRO STATION, 1946, Etching and drypoint on paper, Signed and titled in pencil from an edition of unknown size. Plate: 17" x 13": Sheet: 20.75" x 15.75". One of a pair of large format Mexican etchings...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Native American Painting 1860 Montana Fort Owen Museum Rare Gold Frame Original
Located in Buffalo, NY
A rare mid 19th Century watercolor depicting Native Americans approaching a fort by Peter Peterson Tofft.
This painting depicts a Fort built by Major John Owen in what is now Steve...
Category
1840s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Peachy Pumpkin" interior realist still life painted from life, orange and black
By Sarah Lamb
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Peachy Pumpkin" is an interior realist still life painted from life, orange and black colors.
Framed.
Signed on bottom.
Sarah Lamb is a talented and dynamic realist painter. With ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Wren
Located in Columbia, MO
John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. Most of his childhood was spent in France, where he first took interest in birds and drawing. He came to the U.S. at age 18, and made ma...
Category
19th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Wyeth, May Day, The Four Seasons (after)
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Published and printed by Art in America, New York in an edition of CDVII/D. From the folio, The Four Se...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Four Sheep in the Field, Realist, Light/ Shadow Oil Painting 36" x 24" Farm
By Luke Autrey
Located in Houston, TX
Four Sheep in the Field, Realist, Light/ Shadow Oil Painting 36" x 24" Farm The third and fourth photos show thow this painting will look after being professionally taken by 2/23...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vanity
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Vanity" 1980 is an original sepia etching by American artist Louis Russomanno, b.1946. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 113/185 in pencil by the artist. Th...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Bust of Albert Einstein, Plaster Sculpture 1964
Located in Long Island City, NY
A fine patinated plaster sculpture Albert Einstein mounted to a painted wooden base. The sculpture is signed illegibly and dated on the re...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Plaster
Quart and a Half
By Andrew Wyeth
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Quart and a Half" is an American Realist abstract landscape watercolor on paper painting by Andrew Wyeth in 1961. The artwork is 21 x 29 1/4 inches and is 33 3/4 x 42 1/4 x 1 inches...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Floral Triptych of Large Floral Bouquet, Botanical Cyanotype in Classic Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Rag Paper
"Self Portrait at 43, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Self Portrait at 43
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
August Koi, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero displays a stunning koi pond in mesmerizing shades of deep blue and green. Part of his series of paintings exploring ponds, waterlilies,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
1930s Vintage Oil Painting Girl, Puppy Dog, American Illustrator Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Surfside, FL
A girl and her dog
This was possibly used as an advertisement. It is in a great illustrator style.
22 x 18. framed. 19.5 x 15.5 canvas.
Lawrence Wilbur (1897 - 1960) was active/l...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TAPESTRY OF SPRING Hand Drawn Lithograph Grand Tetons Wyoming Mountain Landscape
Located in Union City, NJ
TAPESTRY OF SPRING by the American Western artist Conrad Schwiering, is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 1...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
String Theory
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
Brown Rabbit on Tourquoise
Located in Columbia, MO
Nora Othic is considered one of the top regionalist painters in the Midwest. She builds on a legacy from her artistic predecessors such as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and the WPA ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Approach to Lee's Ferry
By Kim Whitesides
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Approach to Lee's Ferry" by Kim Whitesides, oil on canvas, 18 X 22 inches (Framed size: 21.5 x 25.5 inches)
Whitesides made an impact in the art community at a very young age. While working as an illustrator in New York City from the late 60s through the mid 80s, his paintings appeared in many publications, including Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and Playboy. He received numerous awards from The Art Directors Club of New York and The Society of Illustrators. It was at this time that Whitesides began a period of bold work with the airbrush that emphasized the simplified spaces and clean lines of art deco and art moderne, for which he gained a national reputation.
A native Utahn, Whitesides believes art is a language and an opportunity for his vision to inspire others. He continues to grow as an artist, as his art is constantly opening doors on new vistas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Ostrich Set of four
By Peter Woytuk
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Peter Woytuk, American artist, born 1958
Large Ostrich Set of four
priced as the set
DATE 1999
MEDIUM cast patinated bronze, number 5 in an edition of 8
molds have been destroyed; n...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Street Mechanic on Rivington Street, 1990 by Tria Giovan - Portrait Photography
By Tria Giovan
Located in Brighton, GB
Street Mechanic on Rivington 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 Pr...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mickey Finn Youth Club
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mickey Finn Youth Club, 1951, oil on Masonite, signed and dated lower right, signed, titled and dated verso, 20 x 24 inches, presented in an older frame
Edgar Kiechle was a Los Ange...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Intersection 18x14, oil on panel City Scene Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Intersection 18x14, oil on panel City Scene Landscape
The artist is a regional landscape painter working in oils and pastels whose subject matter varies from the mountains and desert of west Texas to the wetlands along the Texas coast, with a strong focus on Texas forests and trees. and to the Rocky Mountains The artist is in corporate and private collections around the world.
Garrett Middaugh is a regional landscape painter working in oils and pastels whose subject matter varies from the mountains and desert of west Texas to the wetlands along the Texas coast, with a strong focus on Texas forests and trees. His palette is muted, stark, embracing the neutral colors of everyday experience. Avoiding the romantic, his landscapes are often painted at high noon or in the dead of winter. He paints in a fluid hyper realist style and feels most influenced by other landscape artists such as Neil Welliver and Rackstraw Downes. He sees landscape painting as a form of meditation, projecting outward, while solving equations and mapping the scene, realizing accuracy of objects and relationships, of light, color, textures, distances.
"Landscape painting is for me a means of projecting outward, of meditating, examining the here and now of place. The process often feels similar to the satisfaction of solving math equations, intuitively realizing accuracy of objects and relationships, of light, color, textures, distances. For the most part I paint Texas. For several years I devoted a significant amount of time to painting its forests -- the complexity of forest alleviated my sense and the nearness and density of growth was comforting. I have also ventured into west Texas and Big Bend, and occasionally have attempted to capture the mesmerizing serenity of central Texas farm and ranchland." Garrett Middaugh Also shown is a new Texas tractor painting...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Original Oil Painting Pickup Crossing Gregory Sumida California Artist Americana
Located in Surfside, FL
Gregory Sumida (American, b.1948)
'Pick-Up Crossing'
Oil paint on masonite board.
Hand signed lower right
1976
Depicting a rural landscape and buildings, in a linen-lined pickled w...
Category
20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Original Freedom from Want 1943 vintage poster. Thanksgiving
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: FREEDOM FROM WANT, Ours to fight for ...
Original. Artist: Normal Rockwell. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Note: All US Go...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Last to Arrive, American Western Art Lithograph by Noel Daggett
By Noel Daggett
Located in Long Island City, NY
Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Last to Arrive, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 19 x 23 inches, Size:...
Category
1970s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pacific Rim no. 4
Located in Burlingame, CA
Pacific Rim no. 4 is an ocean beach scene - oil on canvas is 24 x 48 inches, meticulously painted by Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Love...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The Next Stage of Your Journey", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "The Next Stage of Your Journey" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a split rail fence among a meadow of tall grasses leading to am autumn colored forest 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...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dinner Jazz, Louis Armstrong in 1940s Rome, Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1949: American Jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong (1898 - 1971) enjoys a plate of spaghetti in Rome.
Slim Aarons
Dinner Jazz
Louis Armstrong in 1940s Rome
Black and White Pho...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Black and White, Digital
"6 and Two" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Zack Zdrale's (US based) "6 and Two" is an oil painting that depicts two male figures with an obscured faces arching their backs and extending their arms a...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Family of Ducks, Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: Family of Ducks
Year: circa 1940
Medium: Oil on Board
Size: 11 x 14 in. (27.94 x 35.56 cm)
Frame Size: 16.5 x 19.5 inches
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Farm, Winter Landscape, Large Panoramic Vintage Color Photograph Signed Photo
Located in Surfside, FL
Maplewood Township Homestead, Winter, 1993
Fabulous American landscape photography of a rural landscape scene.
from small hand signed edition of 20
Large Format Chromogenic print on Kodak Professional Paper
The sheets are approximately 30 X 56 inches
the images are around 16 X 48.25 inches
Some of them are cut a bit irregularly, they should all mat out fine for framing.
These are vintage large-format architectural chromogenic print photographs hand signed and dated and hand numbered from the edition of 20 in the lower margin.
The collection depicts attractive examples of Mackenzie's wide-lens studies of architecture, such as barns and abandoned houses, set into richly colored landscapes.
Maxwell MacKenzie is an award-winning professional and fine-art photographer based in Washington, DC and Minnesota. Over the past thirty-five years, his photographic assignments have taken him to 20 states and a dozen foreign countries, including Austria, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Brazil, Brussels, England, France, Greece, Morocco, Norway, Sweden, and Wales.
Three books of Mackenzie's fine-art photographs have been published: Abandonings, (1995), color panoramic photographs of his native Otter Tail County, MN, which was awarded the Silver Medal Award for Excellence from Photo District News; American Ruins, Ghosts on the Landscape, (2001) black & white panoramics made in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas; and Markings, (2007), color abstract aerials made from his self-piloted, powered-parachute, a 300 pound, ultra-light aircraft.
MacKenzie’s work is included in the permanent collection of The Phillips Collection as well as hundreds of private and corporate collections, including Exxon, Citibank, Deloitte & Touche, Dow Jones, Fannie Mae, The New York Hospital, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, the Union Bank of Switzerland, Phillip Morris, and the Washington Post. His fine-art photographs of the American West are also included in numerous American Embassy collections including Bogota, Lima, Lagos, and Moscow.
His work has been exhibited in dozens of museums and galleries all over the country, including solo shows at The Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; The American Institute of Architects, DC; The Nordic Heritage Museum, in Seattle, WA; The Piedmont Arts Association, Martinsville, VA; the Julie Saul Gallery in NYC, the DNJ Gallery in LA; The Gallatin River Gallery...
Category
1990s American Realist Art
Materials
Color
Tribal Pots with Oranges, Modern Still Life, Ceramic Patterns on Purple, Diptych
Located in Barcelona, ES
This modern still life diptych by Gio Bellagio is inspired by ancient Greek ceramic vessels. The pots are adorned with minimalist patterns reminiscent of Greek geometry, emphasising the timeless quality of the forms while infusing a modern aesthetic.
Details:
Title: Tribal Pots...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
1930s Vintage Oil Painting Girl, Puppy Dog, American Illustrator Lawrence Wilbur
Located in Surfside, FL
A girl and her dog
This was possibly used as an advertisement. It is in a great illustrator style.
22 x 18. framed. 19.5 x 15.5 canvas.
Lawrence Wilbur (1897 - 1960) was active/l...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Playground, Carl Schurz Park" George Picken, New York City, East River, UES WPA
Located in New York, NY
George Picken
Playground, Carl Schurz Park, 1938
Signed and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
28 x 36 inches
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
A native New Yorker, George Picken was born in 1898. His father, an artist and photographer, emigrated from Scotland; his mother came from Wales. They joined other European immigrants settling in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen. Picken enlisted in the army during World War I and saw action at Verdun. After the war, he stayed in France and like many Americans returning from the vibrant Paris art scene, was inspired by the radical movement known as Impressionism. Upon his return Picken decided to follow in his father’s footsteps and become an artist.
George began his studies in 1919 at the Art Students League during Robert Henri, Max Weber, and John Sloan’s tenure. There he took classes in studio art, illustration, and etching through 1923 studying extensively with George Bridgman. The writings of French philosopher Henri Bergson were widely circulated among the artistic community and looking at Picken’s early paintings one cannot help but wonder if as a young artist he was influenced by Bergson’s ideas. Bergson said, "[There are] two profoundly different ways of knowing a thing. The first implies that we move round the object; the second that we enter into it. The first depends on the point of view at which we are placed and on the symbols by which we express ourselves. The second neither depends on a point of view nor relies on any symbol. The first kind of knowledge may be said to stop at the relative; the second, in those cases where it is possible, to attain the absolute.”
Picken’s recognition came early with showings of his work while he was a student. His drawings were published in the New Masses, a significant left-wing publication. The New York Public Library honored him with one-man shows in 1924 and 1928 and his work was included in group exhibitions at the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Whitney Studio Club, Montross Gallery, and the Art Students League. During this time Picken married Viola Carton, one of Reginald Marsh’s models, and they lived in Westchester. Later they moved to Yorkville in Manhattan between 82nd street and East End Avenue where they began their family. Picken’s grandson Niles Jaeger recalled that, “Grandpa’s home and studio were in a five-story walk-up apartment, heated only by a coal stove. But there were wonderful views of the East River and the Queensborough Bridge...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lemon White Lily, Still Life Oil Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993)
Title: Lemon White Lily
Year: 1982
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso
Size: 26 x 26 in. (66.04 x 66.04 cm)
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Subway 43, Black & White Photo, NYC, 1970s, Limited Edition, Train, Graffiti
By John Conn
Located in Riverdale, NY
Subway 43 by John Conn was originally photographed in New York City between 1975 and 1982. Each black and white photograph is signed and numbered. Edition of 15. It is a 20x30 ima...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Winter Portrait Photograph
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Apres Ski, Gstaad, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Portrait Photography
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a group of women r...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Original "Food Will Win The War" vintage World War 1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original World War 1 vintage poster: Food Will Wn the War. Arhival linen backed. PRINTER: Rusling Wood Litho., New York Bright and in good condition. There is some marks down the left side of the poster, possible ink from when the poster was printed.
This poster calls on immigrants to do their part in the war effort. It depicts recent immigrants standing near a sailing ship with the Statue of Liberty and a rainbow stretched across the New York City skyline in the background. The text reads:
You came here seeking Freedom.
You must now help preserve it.
Wheat is needed by the allies.
Waste nothing.
The generosity and compassion of the American people and the great agricultural resources of the North American continent would be called upon... Twenty million Americans signed pledges of membership in the Food Administration...
Category
1910s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Canadian Geese in Flight
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Canadian Geese in Flight
Drypoint printed with plate tone in the sky
c. 1940's
Signed in pencil lower right
Condition: Excellent
Image/Plate size: 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches
Provenanc...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Drypoint
(Untitled) Portrait of A Distinguished Man in A Bowler Hat
Located in San Francisco, CA
In 1961, there would have been a chauffeured Rolls-Royce Phantom V limousine waiting for this gentleman curbside. Perhaps he was a new ambassador paying his respects to a head of gov...
Category
1960s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"3rd Avenue EL" NYC American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
"3rd Avenue EL" NYC American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century Social Realism
Bernard Gussow (1881-1957)
3rd Avenue El
28 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Fram...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iris - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a purple iris, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.194...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Original Join the U. S. Crop Corps, Work on a Farm this Summer vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
WORK ON A FARM… THIS SUMMER; JOIN THE U. S. CROP CORPS. Original World War II vintage poster # 1943-0-520467. Artist: Morgan Douglas. A visual play on Grant Wood’s famous painting, AMERICAN GOTHIC. This World War 2 poster is linen backed with the original fold marks restored. (US Government...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Belgian Contemporary Art by Hugo Pondz - L'Envolée Secrète
By Hugo Pondz
Located in Paris, IDF
C-print on argentic paper
Others sizes are available upon simple request
Shipping of the artwork will be done in a tube or flat in a crate with or without American box frame. Additional fees will be requested in this type of shipping + frame or not
Hugo Pondz...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, C Print
Great Lakes Grandeur - 2023 American Realist Sunset Oil Painting in Minnesota
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting of sun rays peeking through a clouded sky at one of the Great Lakes.
28.8 x 41 inches, framed
American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at noctur...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Large Panoramic Black & White Photograph Signed American Ruins Maxwell Mackenzie
Located in Surfside, FL
Fabulous American landscape photography of a rural school house.
From series "American Ruins, Ghosts on the Landscape"
"Near Pomme de Terre Lake, Grant County, Minnesota,"
from smal...
Category
1990s American Realist Art
Materials
Black and White
"The Coward" Original cover for Life magazine, Woman Kissing World War I Soldier
Located in Fort Washington, PA
"The Coward" (Woman Kissing Soldier). Original cover illustration for Life Magazine, published April 1919.
Norman Rockwell’s The Coward (or, Woman Kissing Soldier) was published on...
Category
1910s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Battered by Wind and Storms, Sangre de Cristos Mountain Oil Painting, Colorado
Located in Denver, CO
This breathtaking original oil on canvas painting by James Emery Greer (1903-1990), titled Battered by Wind and Storms, Sangre de Cristos, offers a striking depiction of Southern Col...
Category
1980s American Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Original "Clear the Way!! Buy Bonds Fourth Liberty Loan, vintage poster, 1917
Located in Spokane, WA
Original "Clear the Way !!" Buy Bonds Fourth Liberty Loan vintage poster.. With Lady Liberty holding the U. S. Flag above the soldiers prepari...
Category
1910s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American Oil Painting Framed Fruit Table Still Life Pineapple Strawberry
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American realist still life featuring pineapple and strawberries on a table. Oil on canvas. Incredible detail and masterfully painted.
Signed illegibly, last n...
Category
1890s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Love: Walking to School, Four Seasons Calendar Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustrated for the 1949 Four Seasons Calendar, published by Brown and Bigelow.
A young girl holds a freshly-picked bouquet of flowers as she strolls alongside a boy who carries he...
Category
1940s American Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Original Kosciuszko Pulawski Jedz Mniej vintage World War 1 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster: Kosciuszko Pulawski. Walczyli o wolnosc w Ameryce. Czy ty pomozesz Ameryce walczyc o wolnosc w Polsce? They fought for freedom in America. Will you help Ameri...
Category
1910s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Original earliest Rome via TWA vintage travel poster
By David Klein
Located in Spokane, WA
Original linen-backed vintage travel poster: ROME via TWA. TWA Trans World Airlines. Lockheed Constellation flying over the statue of Poseidon (Neptune) Statue, Piazza Navona, ...
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Willard Dixon 'Near San Quentin' Contemporary Realism Landscape Painting
Located in San Rafael, CA
Willard Dixon (American, born 1942)
Near San Quentin, 1976
Oil on Canvas
Signed lower left
Dated lower right
41in H x 62in W
In a natural float frame: 42....
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Located in New York, NY
NYC EL American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Era Figurative
Cecil Bell (1906 – 1970)
Street Life Under the EL
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas, c. 1930s
Signed upper...
Category
1930s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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