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Style: American Realist
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Crested Bird, contemporary realist gouache on paper miniature animal portrait
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky's realist animal miniature, Crested Bird, is a rich melange of hues and textures. The bird's plumage is a blaze of brick red and burnt orange. His tail and crest are pun...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

White and Violet Iris, Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White and Violet Iris Year: 1982 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 40 Image Size: 30 x 24 ...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Screen

Black Turnstone #3
Located in San Francisco, CA

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Little Penthouse
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Little Penthouse, drypoint, 1931, signed in pencil lower right [signed in the plate in a rectangle lower left]. Reference: McCarron 91, only state. Printed ...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Drypoint

West Cornwall Station.
Located in New York, NY
Armin Landeck created this 1936 drypoint was printed in an edition of 100. The image size is 6 7/8 x 10 7/8" and the paper size 12 1/2 x 16". It is Signed and dated in the...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Drypoint

Afternoon Sun
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
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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Early 2000s American Realist Art

Materials

Egg Tempera

"Roller Coaster with Palms 1" - Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Color Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful color photograph by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943). Titled" Roller Coaster with Palms 1" and signed by the artist "Deborah Eddy " on verso. Presented in...
Category

1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Scrap Yard
Located in Greenwich, CT
December 1959, Scrap Metal Loading Area, 8A Yard between 9th & 8th Street by Kent Avenue. Looking East. American, b. 1949 In his more than three decades as an artist, Nicholas Berg...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Skeletal Remains
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I love these dead pines that overlook the ocean, their texture, the way the branches stretch out like arms and fingers out to the sea, and the alternating li...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Dina Brodsky, Crested Caracara, realist gouache animal portrait miniature, 2019
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Rooster, contemporary realist gouache on paper animal miniature
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Great Dane
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Diana Thorne’s Dogs: An Album of Drawings. Diana Thorne. Julian Messner, Inc. New York, 1944. 24 Drawings in Lithography. “In drawing them,” she writes, “I have tried to ma...
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1940s American Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Time magazine cover, April 6, 1946
Located in Miami, FL
This work is meticulously and brilliantly rendered to capture not only the likeness of the sitter but spirit as well. The image is pushed to the forefront of the composition and s...
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1940s American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil

The Corner Deli
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The setting is the Corner Deli on Kenmare Street in Soho, New York, across the street from Lt. Petrosino Square. I was interested i...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Dina Brodsky, Little Rooster, realist gouache miniature animal portrait, 2019
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

White Lily, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Lily on White Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 26 x 26 inches Si...
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Screen

Harbor Village
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Village Harbor" c.1910 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 8 x 15 inches, framed is 17 x 23.75 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of New York...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Landscape with Trees
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trees" 1909 is a watercolor on paper by noted American artist Frederick Leo Hunter, 1858-1943 It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 9.5 x 14 inches, framed is 18.5 x 22.35 inches. It is framed in a custom wooden gold frame, with gold color spacer and fabric matting. It is in very good condition. About the artist. Frederick Leo Hunter was born in New York City in 1858. He was known for street scene paintings and etchings of...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Harold “Red” Grange, The Galloping Ghost, Football Painting by Thomas Allen
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas B. Allen, American (1928 - 2004) Title: Harold “Red” Grange, The Galloping Ghost Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 30 x 40 in. (76...
Category

1970s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Multicolor Iris, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Multicolor Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Size: 36 x 25 in. (91.44 x 63.5 cm)
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Screen

Approaching Storm, New Branches
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Approaching Storm, New Branches" is a watercolor on watercolor board, executed in dark browns, greens and blues and depicting a tree trunk with bare ...
Category

1970s American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Bust / Head No. 2 2014 (with Yoga Block and Dumbell)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Contemporary bust / sculpture: created from wax, wire mesh, dumbell and yoga block, by American artist John Goodman, whose work has been deeply inf...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Steel, Wire

1959 Corvette, Oil Painting by John McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John McCormick, American Title: 1959 Corvette Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 18 in. x 32 in. (45.72 cm x 81.28 cm)
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Farm in the Woods
Located in New York, NY
Werner Drewes (1899-1983), Farm in the Woods, woodcut, 1933, signed and dated in pencil lower right (also numbered 1-xxx and titled lower left). Reference: Rose 83. In very good cond...
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1930s American Realist Art

Materials

Woodcut

Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s
Located in New York, NY
Three Young Men California WPA Figurative Modern Art Gay American Scene 1930s An artist on the WPA mural project, Deutsch was born in Lithuania and died in Los Angeles. Works of Boris Deutsch are housed in Carnegie Institute, National Museum of American Art, Los-Angeles County Museum of Art, Scribal Museum, Pomona College...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Blue Rectangle" - Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk Roller Coaster Color Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful color photograph of the roller coaster at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk by California artist Deborah Eddy (American, b. 1943). Titled "Blue R...
Category

1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Ink, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Yesterday and Today
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is another in a series of paintings I have executed over the years exploring ponds, waterlilies, koi and goldfish. The lilies on my pond tend to flower f...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Fan Dance at Jimmy Kelly’s
Located in New York, NY
Reginald Marsh (1898-1954), Fan Dance at Jimmy Kelly’s, etching, 1936, signed and inscribed 50 proofs (only 24 known printed) [also with the initials and da...
Category

1930s American Realist Art

Materials

Etching

THE FERRY
Located in Portland, ME
Grabach, John R. (American 1886-1981) THE FERRY. Oil on panel, not dated. Signed within the image, lower right, and also on the back of the panel. 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches, 140 x 122 mm....
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Early 20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Pink and Yellow Irises, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Pink and Yellow Irises Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200...
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Screen

Pink Rose Floral Study
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor of a pink rose with a stem on laid paper by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). Presented in a double mat in a modern silver frame. Signed "Barbara Gibson" and dated "1989" in ...
Category

1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil

Man looking into Window
Located in Miami, FL
Original Magazine Illustration for a magazine like Harper's, Vanity Fair, Life, Look, and Judge Shinn was an American realist painter and member of the Ashcan School. He also exhibited with the short-lived group known as "The Eight," Work is framed in an attractive gilt frame Morris Weiss collection...
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1910s American Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer, Gouache, Pencil, Watercolor

Apres Ski, Estate Edition
Located in Los Angeles, CA
40 x 60 inches $3950 30 x 40 inches $3350 20 x 30 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide. Undercurrent Projects is proud to offer this vibrant photo...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lambda

Love Story, Illustration for the Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
An illustrator for Time, Life, Look, True, True West, Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, Readers Digest, and others, he also painted for adverti...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Gouache

Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
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1940s American Realist Art

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Casein

Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Pastel

"Meriden Cutlery 1870" contemporary realist painting antique tool Trompe L'oeil
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetica...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tshusick, An Ojibway Woman
Located in Missouri, MO
Lithograph with original hand color. Sheet size: 18.5 x 13.25 inches. Framed Size: 24 x 20 3/8 inches Date : c. 1836-44 Mckenney and Hall's hand colored lithographs remain some of...
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1830s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Circle Cycle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Circle Cycle is a realist painting of the cycle of waves crashing onto the shore, returning to the expansive ocean, and crash again. Minoff translates the constant motion of the oce...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Gold Leaf

Portrait of a Woman - Lourdes, Drawing by Thomas Strickland
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Thomas Strickland, American (1923 - 1999) Title: Portrait of a Woman - Lourdes Year: circa 1970 Medium: Pastel on Paper, signed Size: 24 in. x 19.75 in. (60.96 cm x 50.17 cm)
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1970s American Realist Art

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Pastel

Afternoon at Hortons Point
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
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 Arti...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Graphite

Bareback Act, Old Hippodrome
Located in Missouri, MO
Gifford Beal (1879-1956) "Bareback Act, Old Hippodome" 1950 Lithograph Signed Lower Right With original Associated American Artists label verso image: 6 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. (16.2 x 24.6 cm) sheet: 12 x 16 in. (30.4 x 40.6 cm) framed: 17 x 20 in. Gifford Beal, painter, etcher, muralist, and teacher, was born in New York City in 1879. The son of landscape painter William Reynolds Beal, Gifford Beal began studying at William Merritt Chase's Shinnecock School of Art (the first established school of plein air painting in America) at the age of thirteen, when he accompanied his older brother, Reynolds, to summer classes. He remained a pupil of Chase's for ten years also studying with him in New York City at the artist's private studio in the Tenth Street Studio Building. Later at his father's behest, he attended Princeton University from 1896 to 1900 while still continuing his lessons with Chase. Upon graduation from Princeton he took classes at the Art Students' League, studying with impressionist landscape painter Henry Ward Ranger and Boston academic painter Frank Vincent DuMond. He ended up as President of the Art Students League for fourteen years, "a distinction unsurpassed by any other artist." His student days were spent entirely in this country. "Given the opportunity to visit Paris en route to England in 1908, he chose to avoid it" he stated, "I didn't trust myself with the delightful life in ParisIt all sounded so fascinating and easy and loose." His subjects were predominately American, and it has been said stylistically "his art is completely American." Gifford achieved early recognition in the New York Art World. He became an associate member of the National Academy of Design in 1908 and was elected to full status of academician in 1914. He was known for garden parties, circuses, landscapes, streets, coasts, flowers and marines. This diversity in subject matter created "no typical or characteristic style to his work." Beal's style was highly influenced by Chase and Childe Hassam, a long time friend of the Beal family who used to travel "about the countryside with Beal in a car sketching...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Kitchen Basics
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic c...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

#3
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This is the third painting in a series of ten. It depicts the golf ball in air. I used a high speed digital camera to capture the source photo. The golf ball ...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Acrylic

Rug and Hat
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original acrylic on panel by American female artist Catherine Koenig. This stunning work created in 1980 is part of the Draw Near exhibition on view at Benjaman Gallery
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1980s American Realist Art

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Acrylic, Panel

Hombre! Que Sin Vergeunza!
Located in New York, NY
George Biddle (1885-1973), Hombre! Que Sin Vergeunza!, 1928, lithograph, signed and dated in pencil lower right, titled and numbered lower left [also signed in plate lower left ”Biddle/1928/44]. References: Pennigar 78, Trotter 44. Edition 100. In excellent condition (never framed, without light or time staining), with wide margins, the full sheet, 9 3/4 x 13 3/4, the sheet 15 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches. Printed by George C. Miller. On cream wove paper with the FRANCE watermark. Archival mounting (mylar unattached mounting between acid-free board). A fine, fresh impression, in pristine condition. According to Pennigar the title translates roughly to “Buddy! Aren’t you ashamed of yourself!” The title refers to the composition: the well-groomed man with his foot up in the carriage passes a group of naked little boys...
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1920s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Dead of Winter
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
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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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Figure, " Nude Portrait Linoleum Cut signed in Image by Gerrit Sinclair
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Figure" is an original linoleum print by Gerrit Sinclair, signed in the lower left hand corner. It features a woman fixing her hair in front of a mirror, her nude body visible to the viewer from the back and front reflecting in the mirror. Image: 6" x 5" Framed: 13.37" x 12.43" Gerrit Sinclair brought the charming style of American Regionalism painting...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Linocut

INTO THE VOID / figurative oil on linen stunner - 5 x 7 feet
Located in Burlingame, CA
Romanesque figurative oil painting 'Into The Void' by American realist artist Gail Chase Bien, depicts ribbon dancers or semi-clothed angelic Baroque figures in a thought-provoking w...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil, Linen

Clown Musicians
Located in Boston, MA
Anne Lyman Powers, American (b. 1922), Clown Musicians, 2014. Signed and dated lower right: "Powers/ 2014". Anne Lyman Powers was born in 1922, and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil

Study of Turnstones.
Located in New York, NY
Frank Benson made this drypoint in 1928. The second state of two. A scarce print with no recorded printings of the second state - presumably, at least two were printed. The image size is 4 7/8 x 5 7/8" (12.4 x 14.9 cm). #282 in the Frank W. Benson catalogue raisonne by Adam Paff. Frank Weston Benson (1862-1951), well known for his American impressionist paintings, produced an incredible body of prints - etchings, drypoints, and a few lithographs. Born and raised on the North Shore of Massachusetts, Benson, a natural outdoorsman, grew up sailing, fishing, and hunting. While a teenager his fascination with drawing and birding developed simultaneously and continued throughout his life. His first art instruction was with Otto Grundman at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and then in 1883 in Paris at the Academie Julian where he studied the rigorous ‘ecole des beaux arts’ approach to drawing and painting for two years. During the early 1880’s Seymour Haden visited Boston giving a series of lectures on etching. This introduction to the European etching...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Art

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Drypoint

Two Penguins, contemporary realist animal watercolor on paper
Located in New York, NY
Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. Each carefully defined feather shimmers with a prism of color. Her attention to detail is enliven...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

RUNNING THE RAPIDS
Located in Portland, ME
Benson, Frank. RUNNING THE RAPIDS. Paff 269. Etching, 1927. Edition of 150. Signed in pencil. Printed on Whatman paper. 5 7/8 x 7 3/4 inches (plate), 8 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches (sheet). A...
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1920s American Realist Art

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Etching

Niman Kachinas - Alo Manas
Located in Soquel, CA
Alo Manas by Lawrence Fodor (American, b. 1951). A lithograph of Hopi Medicine Men. Shortly after Summer Solstice each year the Hopi ceremony called the Niman Kachina, also known as “The Going Home of the Kachina.” Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Larry Fodor...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Fallen Trees
Located in Houston, TX
Kristin Musgnug Fallen Trees, 2015 oil on paper, 22 x 30 inches unframed 25 x 33 framed (framed in white washed maple, with OP3 glazing)
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Rag Paper

Mid Century Amaryllis Blossom Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Highly detailed watercolor of an amaryllis blossom by Joe Yeager (American, early-mid 20th Century). Signed "Joe Yeager" in pen under one of the petals. Presented in a wood frame wit...
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1940s American Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Branches
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A watercolor by Gregory Sumida. "Branches" is a watercolor on paper executed in browns, greens, yellows and blue and depicting a tree trunk with bare branches set against a landscape...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Walking in the Woods
By Frank Arthur Nankivell
Located in New York, NY
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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1910s American Realist Art

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Drypoint

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