American Realist Art

Stover Mill is an American regional landscape of a historic mill and farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania by local resident and artist Loraine Thompson. The 10.5 x 13.5 inches watercol...

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Artist John Jaster paints a realistic still life of a teapot and flowers. White roses blossom, some with open petals and some still in their colorful buds. Th...

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Artist Catherine McCargar displays a view of a barn overlooking a verdant hill. After winter rains, the hillsides in northern California green up, and winter ...

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Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a bouquet of red and yellow roses in realistic detail. "Sometimes one's discarded items become another's cherished findings, as w...

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Artist Jinny Tomozy presents a birds-eye view of growing succulents. She draws inspiration from the bright spectrum of color and contrasting shapes and textures of the plant. Mesmerizing geometric patterns extend from the dense layers of leaves. "Sometimes it stacks perfectly on top of one another but most time displays the enchanting Fibonacci spiral...

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In realism, artist Jinny Tomozy presents a view of flourishing succulents. "What intrigues me about succulent plants are the abstract forms they create," shar...

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Layers of various flowers, buds, and leaves crash into each other, creating a wonderful divergence of garden layers. Artist Jinny...

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"There were several things that drew me to this Calla Lily in a garden full of lilies," says artist Jinny Tomozy. The flower's structure appears to resemble a...

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Many flowers bloom from one bush and form clusters that are set up for dynamic compositions. Artist Jinny Tomozy presents four blossoming Calla Lilies in a ha...

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Artist Guigen Zha pictures a plump red lotus blooming opposite a developing bud. He paints in his distinct style of realism that pres...

Untitled (Girl with Cigarette), 1963/c. 1981 Gelatin Silver Print 14 x 11 inches

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In his distinct realism style, artist Guigen Zha displays a black horse drinking water from a tranquil lily pond. Part of ...

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A brown colt quenches its thirst from a pristine lotus pond in artist Guigen Zha's symbolic piece. Part of his Dreamland series high...

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Artist Marie-Eve Champagne displays a metallic ore on a striking lilac background. The subject opposes the contrasting hue, putting each aspect on display. Th...

“Two Points of View” Original Pastel Drawing, c. 1997 This pastel drawing shows the artist’s command of perspective in landscape and architecture. An impressive lodge stands strong ...

Frank Arthur Nankivell (18691959), [Walking in the Woods at Night], drypoint, c. 1910, signed in pencil lower right. Printed on a cream laid paper. In good condition, with margins (s...

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Artist David Shepherd promotes and explores the idea of united humanity regardless of who he paints. Focusing on the eye in this hyperrealistic piece, he surr...

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Artist Emil Morhardt paints a glaucous-winged gull lifting off Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska. He paints the bird splashing the crystalline water in detailed realism. "These big gulls are unafraid of brown bears, dodging between their legs to grab morsels," says Emil. He highlights the piece with a silvery edge reflecting a dazzlingly sunny day.

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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...

George Biddle (1885-1973), Coffee Huskers, 1928, lithograph, signed, titled and numbered [also inscribed ’43/Biddle/1928 in the plate]. Reference: Pennigar 77, Trotter 43. From the edition of 100, on Rives cream wove paper, with the Rives watermark. In excellent condition, probably never framed or matted, the full sheet, 13 1/4 x 9 3/4, the sheet 16 x 11 1/2 inches, archival mounting (mylar non-attached hinging between acid free boards glassine cover). A fine black impression. Biddle wrote of this lithograph, in 1943: “After scraping the tusche away…I worked back with a pensil (sic) and again with diamond. This all adds to the richness of texture and color.” This work produces a very sophisticated lithographic look, akin in some ways to drypoint work in etching. After Groton, Harvard College and Harvard Law (and several breakdowns) Biddle concluded that a conventional career in law was not for him; he decided on art, went to Paris, worked with Mary Cassatt and familiarized himself with modernist currents in art (as well as more traditional European art). After serving in WWI, and the dissolution of his marriage, he became interested in working outside of the European tradition (although his travels continued to include Europe, and he spent a period working under the influence of Jules Pascin in Paris in the mid-‘20’s). Coffee Huskers, like many of the Mexican and Haitian prints...

Awards 2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club 2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...

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Inspired by how the sunlight illuminated the petals of a rose, artist Sherri Aldawood paints a portrait of her model Alana holding a freshly cut bloom. She paints her enveloped in a warm glow, revealing her and the flower's ethereal beauty. The model poses tenderly in a white dress with a Bardot neckline. The colors of summer shimmer vibrantly in the background.

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Sherri Aldawood didn't intend to always paint flowers, but over time her love of gardens started to permeate her art. She focuses on the light and color of the flowers on the canvas. Sherri prefers alla prima, working with wet layers of paint instead of letting them dry. She keeps the paint as wet as possible by using walnut and clove oil to extend the drying time.

Words that describe this painting: woman, female, people, portrait, face, figure, figurative, John Singer Sargent, rose, garden, Joaquin Sorolla, Susan Lyon...

John Sloan (1871-1951), Hell Hole, 1917, etching and aquatint, signed bottom right, titled bottom center, and inscribed “100 proofs”. Reference: Morse 186, second state (of 2). From ...

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Artist Shuxing Fan exhibits a picturesque sunset from a neighborhood park in classical painting style. He captures the last rays of...

Still Life American Scene Social Realism 20th Century Woodstock Modern Dudensing Konrad Cramer (1888 – 1963) "Black Glass Bowl and Napkin" 16 ½ x 14 inches Oil on Board Singed lower...

Born in Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic, Rudolph Ruzicka emigrated to the United States when he was ten years old. His family settled in Chicago, where Ruzicka worked as a ...

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Artist McGarren Flack paints a frosted snickerdoodle cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, h...

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Artist McGarren Flack paints a twix mix cookie on a solid white background. “Who doesn't like sweets?” asks McGarren. In his Sweets series, he draws every...

Wall Street 2 - plate size 25.5 x 36 - printed on 100% cotton rag - edition 3/5 monochromatic city-scape w/ Architectural elements Cubist and abstract assemblage photographic character

This artwork titled "Port Stephenson" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted American maritime artist Rockwell Smith Brank Jr. 1917-2007. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artis...

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"These raucous birds arrive at my Santa Barbara feeder in flocks," shares artist Emil Morhardt. "They shoo away sparrows and hous...

An oil painting by American artist Rachel Personett (b. 1991, Hawaii) of a woodland scene in October. Yellow foliage adorns the trees and fallen brown leaves cover the ground in this...

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A pair in a kayak glides through the ocean under a clear blue sky in this realistic piece by artist Jesse Aldana. Calmer waters in the open sea promise a great day under the warm sun as the light glistens on the crashing waves near the shore. A gentle haze glows where mountains peek through the mist. "The bright horizon hints at a future of limitless possibilities."

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California artist Jesse Aldana uses the ritual of sunrise and sunset to capture the spirit of the west. Using a hybrid of realist brushwork and an almost surreal absence of humans, Jesse documents residential neighborhoods, main thoroughfares and coastal scenes across the great city of Los Angeles. Reminiscent of Ed Ruscha, Jesse’s work acts as both a record of the current landscape as well as a metaphor for the openness and sense of opportunity that continually draw settlers to the west coast. Jesse says of California, “the sky is an overwhelming presence.” He frames his big sky compositions with narrow palm trees and low-slung buildings at the periphery of the canvas to illustrate the scale of the scene. In doing so, the viewer can begin to appreciate the sentiment of the final frontier. Jesse works from a home studio in Los Angeles using photographs that he takes of the surrounding area as source material. He holds a BA from Brown University and an MFA from The New York Academy of Art. He regularly exhibits at the Beverly Hills Art Show.

Words that describe this painting: kayak, ocean, wave, nature, sports, realism, water, seascape, sea, horizon, boating, oilpaint, seascape, realism, oil painting

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Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Merry-Go-Round, etching and engraving, 1938, signed in pencil lower right and inscribed Forty Proofs lower left, [also signed in the plate lower left and inscribed SC]. Reference: Sasowsky 179, fourth state (of 4). In good condition, with margins (a paper loss upper right corner well outside of the platemark, stains from prior hinging, notations in pencil lower margin edge). 10 x 8, the sheet 11 1/2 x 9 1/8 inches. A very good impression, printed in black on a wove paper with a partial FRANCE watermark. Sasowsky notes that Marsh printed 15 impressions of this state (and only one or two of the prior states), and considered only 10 of the 15 valuable. His notation “Forty Proofs” is therefore surely an expression of a hoped-for edition size, as opposed to an actual edition size. We have found this quite often the case with Marsh prints – he indicates an edition size but the actual number of impressions printed is considerably smaller. There is an eerie, almost ominous note in this, as in several of Marsh’s merry-go-round prints...

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"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...

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"Hope is the belief that things will work, most especially when it seems otherwise," says artist Jo Galang. "Deep, never wavering hope is what we need to clin...

Awards 2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club 2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...

This artwork "Lily" C.1975 is an original colors serigraph by noted American artist Lowell Nesbitt, 1933-1993. It is hand signed, dated and numbered A.P. 6/30 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 23.75 x 26 inches, sheet size is 29.35 x 31.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, it has a very light printing ink soiling at the left margin, see picture #6 and a light crease at the lower center margin. About the artist: Lowell Nesbitt, who was born in Baltimore on Oct. 4, 1933, was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and also attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he worked in stained glass & etching. In 1964, the Corcoran Gallery or Art in Washington gave him one of his first museum exhibitions, and by the mid 1970's he had decided to leave the museum a bequest of more than $1 million. But in 1989, he publicly revoked the bequest after the Corcoran canceled a disputed exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, who was an old friend. Mr. Nesbitt named the Phillips Collection as a beneficiary instead. He was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated. He had many subjects: studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes and groupings of fruits and vegetables. He also painted his dog, a Rottweiler named Echo, the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges. Despite such variety, Lowell Nesbitt was best known for gargantuan images or irises, roses, lilies and other flowers, which he often depicted in close up so that their petals seemed to fill the canvas. Dramatic, implicitly sexual and a little ominous, they earned the artist a popularity with the general public that tended to overshadow his reputation within the art world. In 1980, the United States Postal Service issued four stamps based on Mr. Nesbitt's floral paintings. He also served as the official artist for the space flights of Apollo 9 and Apollo 13. SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS -Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, New York -AT&T, New York, New York -Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, California -Bank of New York, New York, New York -Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France -Celenese Corporation, New York, New York -Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York -Citicorp, New York, New York -Florists Trans World Delivery Collection of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan -Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan -General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota -Hess Shoe Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland -Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York -Maryland National Bank, Baltimore -Mutual of Omaha, Washington D.C. -Neiman-Marcus, Atlanta, Georgia -Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois -J.C. Penny Corporation, New York, New York -Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey -Schroeder Bank and Trust Company, New York, New York SELECTED MUSEUM AND GOVERNMENT COLLECTIONS. -American Embassies: Monrovia, Dar es Salaam, Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo -The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois -Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland -Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Collection of Pope Paul II -Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. -Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas -Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan -Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas -Enviromental Protection Agency, Washington D.C. -Federal Reserve Bank, Baltimore, Maryland -Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. -Fort Worth Art Center, Texas -The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia -Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. -International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. -Israel Museum, Jerusalem -John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida -Library of Congress, Washington D.C. -Loch Haven Art Center, Florida -Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1958: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 1971: -Gimpel Fils, London, England -Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY 1972: -Kunstverein, Frieburg, Germany -Galerie Arneson, Copenhagen, Denmark -Gerlerie Aronovitsch, Stockholm, Sweden 1973: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1974: Gimpel Fils, London, England 1975: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1976: Hayden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1977: Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita KS 1978: Kent State University, Kent, OH 1979: Selby Botanical Gardens, Museum of Botany and the Art's, Sarasota, FL 1980: Marion Koogler Mcnay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX 1981: Editions Inc, Houston TX 1982: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1983: Atlantic Center for the Art, New Smyrna Beach, FL 1984: Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK 1989: Tyler Gallery...

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"The still life is simple, but the combination of red and gray gives it sophistication," says artist Nikolay Rizhankov. A well-worn table stands against a muted background with cracks on the wall. A basket, a few apples, and a red mug...

This late-1970s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Manuela Boraomanero (left) and Emanuela Beghelli holiday in the Italian ski resort of Cortina d'Amp...

This late-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the hall of Boughton House, Kettering. This is an esta...

This late-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the hall of Boughton House, Kettering. This is an esta...

This late-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the hall of Boughton House, Kettering. This is an esta...

This late-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the hall of Boughton House, Kettering. This is an esta...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 w...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 w...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the apres-ski in Zermatt, Switzerland. This is an estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 w...

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Two geese turn to regard the viewer along the grassy bank of a quiet lake. "Growing up with my older sister, my mom would always dress us in the exact same clothes," shares Jo Galang. "With the same haircut and similar looks, people would always mistake us for twins since we were almost the same size and height. It was fun back then but as we grew up, we each evolved into our own distinct personalities."

About the Artist
Artist Jo Galang expresses a quiet nostalgia in her airy interpretations of the landscapes and waterways of the Pacific Northwest. Her soft oil paintings capture the meditative sounds of rivers and waterfalls flowing past her easel. During the summer, she spends as much time as possible outside creating plein air sketches and studying the light on the landscape. As a young art student in the Philippines, Jo was privileged to study with the renowned painter Danilo Dalena, who she says encouraged her to be the artist she is today. "I believe my art looks simple enough that people have no idea how much time I have spent working on it," she says. When she is not painting, Jo and her husband enjoy taking road trips, playing cards and finding creative ways to spend time with their granddaughter.

Words that describe this painting: animals, birds, Canada geese, geese, lake, landscape, nature, summer, water, waterfowl, grass, classical, wildlife, animals, classical, realism, representational, oil painting, green

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Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. Slim Aarons worked mainly for society publications, taking pictures of the rich and famous both...

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"The two nearer whimbrels look to me," shares artist Emil Morhardt. "They look as though they might be discussing whether or not to let junior fly to Florida ...

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In this hyperrealistic painting of a close-up view of an eye framed by delicate white flowers, artist David Shepherd investigates taking people out of gender....

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A hyperrealistic painting of a close-up view of an eye framed by glistening white and pink flower petals. Part of artist David Shepherd's series investigating...

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A close-up view of two ducks looking astutely at the viewer. "There's something highly engaging, and perhaps a little unsettling, about the way these young fe...

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"These two glowing marbled godwits are painted at the edge of the surf on a soft late evening on a Santa Barbara beach," sh...

Tom Pfannerstill recreates trash he finds - he then hand paints on wood - painted on carved basswood. These are carved wood sculptures and hand painted. There is no collage - it is ...

This artwork titled "Trumpeteers" 1976 is an original wood engraving by Russian/American artist Leon Gilmour, 1907-1996. It is hand signed, titled, dated ...

John Sloan (American 1871 – 1954), Fashions of the Past, etching and aquatint, 1926, signed and titled by the artist in pencil (Morse 224 IV/IV), also signed by the printer. From the...

Asa Coolidge Warren (1819 - 1904) Oil on Canvas Sight Size: 18x20 Overall frame size: 26x28 Signed and Dated left: 1884 Housed in original gold gilded frame Overall very good conditi...

This artwork "Two Children with Dog" is an original ink drawing on vey thick Bristol paper by American artist Lynn Gertenbach, b.1940. It is hand signed a...

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Artist Jo Galang says this piece was inspired by a lovely bouquet she received from her son and his girlfriend on Mother's Day. "It was so beautiful, and the ...

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Part of David Shepherd's latest series of hyperrealist paintings focusing on women's lips. A sensual portrait rendered in extremely precise painting. Among ot...