American Realist Art
20th Century American Realist Art
Archival Pigment
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s American Realist Art
Paper, Watercolor
1920s American Realist Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
20th Century American Realist Art
Archival Pigment
1940s American Realist Art
Oil, Canvas
2010s American Realist Art
Paper, Oil
2010s American Realist Art
Linen, Oil
1910s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1940s American Realist Art
Offset
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Lambda
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Ink
1930s American Realist Art
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Late 19th Century American Realist Art
Laid Paper, Etching
1960s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1930s American Realist Art
Offset
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt displays an impressionist portrait of three brown pelicans. The birds sun themselves in the Sea of Cortez against a subtle greenish-blue late afternoon sky. "I hadn't thought about pelicans having a 3D vision like hawks until I was looking over my photos and saw one of the birds staring straight at me," shares Emil. He references his photographs from a National Geographic Zodiac that the pelicans seemed curious about, allowing very close viewing.
About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Acrylic
20th Century American Realist Art
Black and White
19th Century American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s American Realist Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
1960s American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
1970s American Realist Art
Lithograph
19th Century American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
20th Century American Realist Art
Archival Pigment
Artist Comments
"A late morning on a Malibu beach finds the tide nearly at its peak and the usually broad sands founder in a creamy froth," says artist Jesse Aldana. Sunlight...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
2010s American Realist Art
Oil, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Gold Leaf
2010s American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
1970s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1980s American Realist Art
Lithograph, Offset
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
1980s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1950s American Realist Art
Offset
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Lithograph
1940s American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
1930s American Realist Art
Etching
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
Artist Comments
Black turnstones are small hyperactive solitary shorebirds that, on Leadbetter Beach in Santa Barbara where they can be found in abundance in early winter, ra...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor
1910s American Realist Art
Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Bronze
1930s American Realist Art
Oil
1940s American Realist Art
Offset
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil, Linen
1850s American Realist Art
Paper, Laid Paper, Lithograph
Artist Comments
Artist Jinny Tomozy captures the drama of light and shadow on blooming Magnolias. She renders the flowers with a realistic approach, carefully detailing the d...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor
Artist Comments
"Traveling in England's Cotswolds region, I sought out a number of impressive gardens designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown," shares artist Mandy Main. "This estate, Croome Court, has a colorful history, including its 1979 purchase by John Lennon for use as a Hare Krishna...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
1930s American Realist Art
Etching
1930s American Realist Art
Aquatint
1930s American Realist Art
Ink, Gouache, Board
1970s American Realist Art
Masonite, Oil
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Lithograph
1910s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1940s American Realist Art
Watercolor, Illustration Board