American Realist Art

American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite, C. Z. Guest, ( aka Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with her personalized Ford Model T t...

Watercolor on paper

Signed in pencil Edition: 75 Gargoyle Series No. 7 This impression probably printed by David Strang, 1937-38 Sheet: 9 1/4 x 11 1/4" Reference: William Dolan Fletcher, John Tay...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Focusing on this duality of the old and the new, my work captures a changing New York – the old neon signage...

Seascape of waves crashing against a large rock by Joseph Yeager (early-mid 20th Century) on heavy bond watercolor paper with ragged edges. Signed "Joe Yeager" in the lower right cor...

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About Mark Schiff — Animated by photographs that reflect his personal life, Mark Schiff’s paintings are fueled by what makes him happy. Through his open touch and signature blending method, he lends his artistic perception to the original photographic compositions captured on his Leica. Mark’s creative vision has been alive since he was a boy. As a child he spent his summers observing life as he rode the trolley back and forth to art classes at the Pratt Institute. During his future travels to Europe, Mark’s eye for light and photography merged with his passion for painting at the Jeu de Paume in Paris; which triggered his career in photorealism. Mark is well known for painting objects that people can identify and emotionally connect with. His work is distinctly marked by a rich palette and the luminous range of light he paints into his compositions. Each painting is a true extension of his vision and can take up to 200 hours to complete. Mark Schiff’s work has been commissioned by the well-known brands The Hershey Company and Tropicana. His private collectors include A-list celebrities and also corporate collectors in the US and abroad. Possessing a strong philanthropic nature, Mark donates both his time and works to charitable organizations such as Big Brothers Big Sisters, The Ronald McDonald House, Make-A-Wish Foundation, The Humane Society and the Special Olympics. Photorealism is widely viewed as one of this century’s most exciting genres of art. When a photorealistic painting is viewed from afar, it looks like a photograph. Only when getting very close to the art does the viewer realize that it is in fact not a photo, but rather an oil painting. Photorealism can also refer to sculptures. Duane Hanson is known as the greatest photorealistic sculptor of all time. Some of the greatest photorealistic painters include Mark Schiff, Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Charles Bell and Audrey Flack. Photorealist Mark Schiff was born in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, in a neighborhood known as a kuchalane, a Yiddish word which Schiff defines as a place where everyone (from the Old Country) ended up living on the same street, and most likely knowing each other’s business. His Russian grandfather came to the US before the revolution and both his parents were first generation American. Even at five years of age, Mark showed exceptional talent. In the summer, his mother permitted him to travel by himself on the trolley for art classes at the Pratt institute. He continued studying there until he was eleven and the family moved to Great Neck. Except for a few art classes in high school and playing baritone horn in the band, Mark focused on other things besides art, especially when his mother worried for his financial future, kept insisting “that Jewish boys don’t starve to death.” His father made a good living as a production man in textiles so Mark, who had spent years doing the rounds of knitting mills with his father, decided to major in textile chemistry at North Carolina State. ROTC was mandatory on his campus and he did two years in order to be eligible for officer status. He won the Armed Forces Chemical Association award and thought for sure that he would be assigned chemical work, but instead was made a tank commander and stationed at Fort Knox. Not exactly what his heart yearned for, but a good job awaited him at Sandoz, a Swiss company that made dyestuff. What perfect training for someone who would soon be working in wonderful rich colors on canvas. He went on to receive his MBA degree from Hofstra University, left Sandoz and was hired to sell at a spinning mill. He liked it. In 1976 he joined Bennett Berman Associates and had an opportunity to buy the spinning mill Spun Fibers. But what of art? In the early days, Elsie, his wife of fifty-two years, had a problem with the large amount of space his canvases occupied in their one bedroom apartment. Mark took up photography instead, which only required a small darkroom. Photography was a natural ally for his eventual return to painting in the photorealistic style. It was on his second trip to Europe that Mark fell in love with painting all over again. The impressionistic museum, Jeu de Paume in Paris, renewed his passion and it’s been non-stop since then. Out came the brushes, but this time, he used his love and skill of photography, and built a style based on the photographs he had taken, bringing them to life with paint. Mark was still not painting to sell until in 1990 when someone discovered and desperately wanted his candy bar (Sweet Series) painting. Mark didn’t want to let go of that particular piece, but was finally convinced to sell it and a second candy painting to this ardent art and candy lover. Two years later, Mark was commissioned to make three paintings of this man’s new Ferrari. Some of the artists who have inspired his work are Richard Estes, Sandy Scott, Chuck Close, and Charles Bell. He appreciates the work of Ken Keeley, but unlike Keeley’s hard-lined/tape and ruler style, Mark prefers an open touch, using the blending method. Mark’s subject matters range from candy bars to spice racks to soda cans and soda bottles. He photographs with a Leica M-7 and each painting can take up to 200 or more hours to complete. His palette is rich; his subjects, be it a fire engine or a pretzel cart, take on a luminous quality, always photoreal, but even more beautiful. Mark developed his own technique for working with bottles by painting a canvas all black, so that the transparency of the bottles allows a wonderful range of light to filter through. The same light and reflection can be seen in the black rotary phone...

William Monk, 'The Elevated, East 42nd Street, New York', etching, 1910. Signed in pencil and titled in the bottom right sheet corner. Signed in the plate, lower right. A superb, ric...

(After) JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785 - 1851) MISSOURI MOUSE, 1846 - Plate 100 (C) No. 20 Lithograph with original hand coloring. From Audubon's "The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America...

This classic Slim Aarons photograph depicts a couple basking under the sun at the renowned Palm Beach, Florida, circa 1955. The woman in the forefront sports a vintage orange swimsui...

My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that...

Unique, monoprint

Monika's Lilies is painted in the style of American Realism. This floral painting has won several awards in Realism contests in the USA. Gary J. Hernandez is an internationally reco...

Rita Aarons, wife of photographer Slim Aarons, swimming in a pool festooned with floating baubles and a decorated Christmas tree, Hollywood, California, 1954. Two children play in th...

Signed (at lower right): John Ross Key 1882

Born in Harlem, William Waithe studied painting, drafting and architecture at New York University and Queens College. He was known for painting outdoors, and is particularly identifi...

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...

"Coupe Gordon Bennett 1909 — Curtiss le Gagnant" is an original Lithograph with Pochoir created by Marguerite Montaut (GAMY). Gamy presents the viewer w...

Gordon Brown's (US based) "Storm Swell" is an oil painting that depicts rolling, tumultuous waves crashing against a rocky shore with storming clouds over...

Artist: Charles Xavier Harris Title: Speak Medium: Oil on Wood Panel Nationality: American (1856 - 1936) Year: 1885 Dimension: 20.5 x 16.25 Fra...

Watercolor on handmade Richard de Bas "fleurs" paper Agnes Murray has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public collections. Ms. Murray is a p...

The Rilke Portfolio by Ben Shahn contained 24 prints from the Atelier Mourlot in New York. The Munn Collection offers 7 unframed lithographs from the o...

"Nostalgia" features soft hues of brown, orange, yellow, purple and blue. Richard Thomas Scott is inspired by the work of Rembrandt, Andrew Wyeth,...

Mansard Window, Oil on canvas, cityscape Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn Dr. Rowland S. Russell PhD. writes about his experience directly witnessing Greg's practice as a “plein a...

This artwork "Still Life #3" 1989 is an original color lithograph by American artist Audean Johnson. It is hand signed and numbered 227/275 in pencil by...

Bathers having a winter dip in a pool at Vail, Colorado, March 1964. Slim Aarons Snow Round The Pool Giclee Print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aarons Estate. Certificate of Authenticity included. Other sizes available from Undercurrent Projects: 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Internal: Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Vail Photograph, 1960s Photography, Vintage Colorado...

A quintessential New England snow scene in the impressionist style. Snow scenes by this artist were considered to be some of his finest works. Frame...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts...

Paper Size: 14 x 11 inches ( 35.56 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 8.5 x 6.5 inches ( 21.59 x 16.51 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional D...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts...

"Woodland Interior" and "Martinsville, Maine" is a double sided watercolor painting by American painter Ranulph Bye. One side features a thick interior woo...

Antarctica #26 is a limited edition photograph which is part of the Antarctica/Patagonia Series by John Conn taken in 2010. The image is 20x30 and it is printed on 24x36 archival pa...

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...

Pen and ink on tan laid paper

Soft and elegant 51-screen serigraph by Joe Price (American, b. 1935). This piece has the appearance of an oil painting, due to the uncharacteristically high number of screens used i...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Having worked from a studio in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn for two decades, Elizabeth O'Reilly is at home in the abandoned precincts...

Synagogue interior. reading the Torah. Jewish Prayer. Judaica piece. Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman. Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recen...

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: ...

Margot Glass' miniature watercolor and graphite envelopes are reminiscent of love notes and pen pals. Her array of diminutive, jewel-toned envelopes remind us of the delicacy and poe...

Dramatic imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett ...

Artist self portrait in mirror

After John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) Title: "Bay-breasted Warbler," no. 44, pl. LXIX Medium: hand-colored engraving with aquatint on J. Whatman wove paper Dimensions: plate 19.38" x 12.25" . frame 48.88" x 38.38" Description: from "The Birds of America (1826-1838)," Robert Havell edition...

Based on a poem or song. Poetry piece Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman. Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintin...

Bilbouquet sporting painting Watercolor painting hand signed by Peter Emanuel Goldman. Legendary French American Film Auteur, These are recently produced watercolor paintings based ...

Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC. Burned pieces by Paul Chojnowski. I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that t...

Baby caring a horse shoe on his shoulders reminiscent of the famous J. C. Leyendecker Baby covers for the Saturday Evening Post. This is a cover illustration/ painting for Collie...

Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of lilacs, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b.1943). Signe...

Stephanie Buer's (US based) "Summer School" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a grey exterior wall of a school with a graffitied phrase. Stephanie Buer, now based ...

J. ALDEN WEIR (1852 – 1919) LARGE HEAD IN PROFILE, 1891 (Zimmerman 30) Signed and dated in plate only in upper left corner. 7 7/8 x 5 7/8” Sheet size 13 x 9 ¼”. Delicate impressi...

Margot Glass' miniature watercolor and graphite envelopes are reminiscent of love notes and pen pals. Her array of diminutive, jewel-toned envelopes remind us of the delicacy and poe...

Breathtaking and grand ocean scene / landscape with tree branch and distant hills, 'Gravitas' is 4 x 8 feet , 48 x 96 inches. Tranquil blue water with filtered ...

Artist: Sandu Liberman, Romanian/Israeli (1923 - 1977) Title: Rabbi with Torah Scroll Year: Circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dedicated verso S...

James Bonelli: 1916-2000. Listed American artist from Philadelphia who studied at PAFA. Just a few weeks ago a smaller Gloucester painting by him s...