American Realist Art

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"This painting was inspired by the dramatic lighting and shadows receding into West 14th Street at sunset," says artist Nick Savid...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Two Yellow Irises on Sage I Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 22.5 x ...

Original. FIGHT OR BUY BONDS. THIRD LIBERTY LOAN. Linen backed. Lithograph. World War 1 authentic vintage poster. ARTIST: Howard Chandler Christy. Linen-backed, larger size format for this poster. Ready to frame. Despite minor edge wear touch-up from linen backing, this poster presents very well and is in above-average condition. You can be confident in the quality of this piece. One of the most famous and powerful WW1 propaganda images, this flag-waving Ms. Liberty (aka Columbia) poster is unusual in that it urged both recruitment and bond sales. The US had just entered the war when this poster appeared and it is one of the earliest examples of myriad illustrations that were used to motivate both troops and the American public. It's designer, Howard Chandler Christy, was at the height of his fame. He earned his spurs as a wartime artist when he accompanied US troops to Cuba in 1898, an experience that stood him in good stead when he was called on to create his famed series of patriotic WW1 posters...

President Bill Clinton Archival pigment print image size: 36 x 36 inches Signed and numbered edition of 25 William Coupon is an American photog...

Charming hand painted photograph, portrait of a young ballerina as Tinker Bell by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Circa 1957. Signed "Studio d'Art Los Altos...

Hans Weingaertner (1896-1970). Oil on canvas measures 8 x 10 inches; 14 x 16 inches in a frame of the period. Signed lower right. Excellent, clean condition with no damage or restoration. Signed with monogram and dated 1966 en verso. Biography: Birth place: Krailburg, Germany Addresses: Lynhurst, NJ; Belleville, NJ Profession: Painter Studied: Royal Acad., Munich, Germany, and with Ludwig Klein, Moritz Hyman, A. Jank. Exhibited: Soc. Indep. Artists, 1929-40; BM, 1932; New Haven PCC, 1934-39; AIC, 1936; traveling exhib., 1936-37; Corcoran Gal biennial, 1939; Montclair AM, 1938, 1939; New Jersey State Mus., Trenton, 1939; Newark Mus., 1940, 1944; Carnegie Inst., 1941; VMFA, 1946; Penn. State Teachers College, 1944, 1946; PAFA Ann., 1951; WMAA; NAD; CAFA; Salons of Am. Awards: prizes, Montclair AM, 1949, 1950; New Haven PCC, 1950; Newark Art Club, 1951; Bamberger purchase, 1964 Member: Mod. Artists, New Jersey; Soc. Indep. Artists; New Haven PCC; New Jersey AA; Audubon Artists; New Jersey WCS Work: Newark Mus.; Rutgers Univ.; Jefferson H...

An oil painting of an antique pair of tongs, meant for use during ice fishing. Suspended from a small rope, hanging from a single nail, against a grey backdrop. Brushstrokes can be seen in the gray of the background, but are harder to make out on the subject. Morfis paints in an extremely refined, realist approach. Painting dimensions: 25 x 19 inches Framed dimensions: 30 x 24 x 1.5 inches Available at Grenning Gallery. BIOGRAPHY 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 aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical. With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown. John’s first solo show took place in 2007 at the Ellen Traut Collection Gallery in Hartford, CT and was a near sell out. Since then John has had success up and down the northeastern coast of the United States working with various galleries and collectors. His work has also appeared in various group shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. ARTIST STATEMENT Each painting, although a portrait of a tired hand...

Nature has always been Tara Esperanza’s muse and source of endless fascination and inspiration. From an early age, her love for the environment shaped her way of seeing the world. As...

Signed lower right American, b. 1958 Designated a living master by the Art Renewal Center and widely regarded as a leader of the American landscape school, Joseph McGurl is one of ...

EDWARD CURTIS (1868 - 1952) BEFORE THE WHTE MAN CAME - PALM CANYON, 1924 Photogravure. Printed title along with 1924 copyright line. Photogravure Suffolk Eng. Co., Cambridge Mass...

Jon Carsman Faded Glory - 1978 Print - Silkscreen, on Arches archival paper 34¼'' x 24'' inches Edition: signed in pencil and marked 156/100 image size 20" x 30" inches “Jon Cars...

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...

Carole Rabe’s Piano Stool is a quietly luminous 24 x 22 inch oil on canvas painting that transforms an ordinary interior into a contemplative study of ligh...

A Fine depiction of a Sailing Ship in the Hudson River. For this wonderful depiction, Nemethy uses a Fine technique which depicts the figures on the boat in a miniature way. With joyful colors, this piece is bright and peaceful. This painting is signed by the artist lower left and it comes comes housed in a beautiful simple wood frame and ready to be displayed with hanging wire on verso. This painting measures 8 x 14 inches Framed measures 13 x 19 inches PROVENANCE: Lilac Gallery...

American School, 19th Century Unsigned " Portrait of a Woman ", circa 1840 Oil on Canvas 30" x 25 1/4" Housed in a 3 3/4" Gold Leaf Frame with a 3/4" Gold Liner Overall Size: ...

Original U.S. Post WWI United War Work Campaign “New York Will Give One Day’s Pay” Fundraising vintage poster. Linen backed in fine to mint condition, ready to frame. This is an...

Anton Schutz, 'Spirit of Buffalo', etching, edition not stated, c. 1927. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'Spirit of Buffalo 522', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 5/8 to 2 inches), in excellent condition. Matted to museum standards, unframed. Image size 8 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches; sheet size 12 1/4 x 15 7/8 inches. ABOUT THE ARTIST Etcher, painter, and architect, Anton Schutz was born in Germany in 1894. He studied at the University of Munich, earning a double degree in mechanical engineering...

William Sharp (1900 - 1961) Factory on the River Oil on canvas 20 1/2 x 28 1/2 inches Initialed lower left: WS Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, New York Swann Auction Galleries, American Art, June 13, 2019, Lot 178 Private Collection, New York Colonial Sand and Stone Co., founded by Generoso Pope, was once the country’s largest sand and gravel business, providing the concrete for much of New York City’s skyline, including the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center, Radio City Music Hall, airports and subways. William Sharp was born on June 13, 1900, in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry. He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. Sharp began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals. He served in the German army during World War I. After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. Sharp drew political cartoons that were bitterly critical of the growing Nazi movement. As the influence of National Socialism intensified, he began to contribute drawings, under a pseudonym, to publications that were hostile to Hitler. After Hitler assumed power, Sharp was confronted with these drawings and told that he would be sent to a concentration camp. However, in 1934, he escaped to the United States. His first newspaper assignment in America was making courtroom sketches for The New York Mirror...

Original Hawaii, United Airlines Hawaii travel poster. Linen-backed, excellent condition. Ready to frame. Great price for an archival linen-backed poster of this Hawaii United Airlines vintage...

A fine depiction of an autumn season landscape of Wetlands with a beautiful reflection of sunlight hitting the water. For this wonderful depiction, Nemethy uses a fine technique whic...

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...

HAROLD LUKENS DOOLTTLE (1883 - 1974) WESTERN GRANDEUR c. 1945 Aquatint, signed titled and dedicated. Image 9 ¾ x 13 5/8 inches. Large full sheet with deckle edges 15 ½ x 19 inches...

Cats on the Sidewalk, 1984 by Tria Giovan From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020 Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 with 3 Artist Proofs ...

Vibrant, colorful still-life of fruit arranged in front of a bowl and pitcher by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Circa 1940. This piece is partially incomplete. Unsigned, but...

THOMAS HART BENTON (1890- 1975) HYMN SINGER / THE MINSTREL (Portrait of Burl Ives) 1950 (Fath 74) Lithograph signed with full signature “Thomas H. Benton” A large image, 15 ¾ x 12 i...

William Wind McKim, 'Bighorn', lithograph, 1940, edition c. 25. Signed and titled in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on cream wove paper, the full sheet with margins (2 to 4...

Jimmy Abeita B. 1947 painting is oil on canvas Image 9x12 Overall with frame 15x18 inches Signed lower right Housed in original Frame Gallery labels: Adobe Gallery and Brandywine gal...

Artist Comments
"Common Ravens are a friendly lot, hanging around in large groups at an abundant food source or pairing off to wander as a couple," ...

"No Gas, No Lodging, Hwy 76, Roggen, CO" is a striking original oil painting on linen, depicting a vast stretch of snowy Colorado plains, with an abandoned motel sign standing stark ...

A beautiful and delicate 19th century image of late autumn in New England. Boston: Estes & Lauriat Editons, 1888. Etching on cream laid paper, 6 x 11 inches (150 x 278 mm), full ma...

John Hanlen (1922-2003). Spice Market, Marrakesh, Morocco, ca. 1950. Tempera on paper, sheet measures 18.5 x 23 inches. Measurement with matting: 26 x 32 inches. The piece is unfr...

This illustration was created for the Hills Brothers Coffee company in 1929 and was used on promotional products as well as coffee cans in the ye...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Factory Worker, c. 1936, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 18 ¼ x 36 inches; exhibited in City ...

A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967, Printed Later Slim Aarons A Friendly Chat Bahamas Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 60 x 40 inches $3950 40 x 30 inches $3350 30 x 20 inches $3000 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 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. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed 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: A man wearing diving equipment talks with a girl in a wicker chair on the beach, Bahamas, 1967. Vintage Diving, Vintage Sport, Vintage Slim Aarons, Vintage Bahamas...

"Red Sand Shovel" is a contemporary trompe l'oeil oil painting of antique object in an interior. The child's shovel is hanging on a hook slightly off kilter. Artist Bio: John Morfi...

Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Fashion editorial photo of male model Pat Anderson, ca. 1973. 11 x 14 inches; 12 x 15 inches framed. The print was used for publication in After Dark Magazine. From the estate of William Como, Editor in Chief, After Dark Magazine. Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita...

Etching with aquatint on heavy laid paper, 7 x 9 1/4 inches (172 x 233 mm), full margins. Signed in the plate, lower right image area. Minor corner loss, top right, and a 1/4 inch ed...

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...

Artist: Alex Katz, American (1927 - ) Title: Night: William Dunas Dance II Year: 1983 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 106/125 and there were also 17 artist...

'Kids under Water Hydrant' is a black and white photographic print on Hahnemuhle paper in a limited edition of 10 by Michael Ormerod. Featured in the 2024 posthumous solo exhibitio...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Portrait of Man in Trench Coat, 1950. Ink on paper, measuring 8 x 12 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframe...

An American Still Life of an Apple, Pear and Grapes Oil on canvas on board Signed illegibly circa late 1800s 9 3/4 x 5 7/8 (16 x 12 3/4 frame) inches This is an example of late 19...

Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985).Male Figure at Beach, 1952.. Gouache on cardboard panel, 9 x 10 inches, 14.5 x 15.25 inches in maple frame. Signed, dated lower le...

Anton Schutz, 'U.S. Chamber of Commerce', etching, edition not stated, 1928. Signed in pencil. Annotated 'U.S. Chamber of Commerce S/516', in another hand, in the bottom right margin. A fine, richly-inked impression, with skillfully-controlled plate tone, on cream wove Japan paper; the full sheet with margins (1 3/4 to 2 3/8 inches), in excellent condition. Image size 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 inches; sheet size 14 1/8 x 11 5/8 inches. Matted to museum standards, unframed. ABOUT THE ARTIST Etcher, painter, and architect, Anton Schutz was born in Germany in 1894. He studied at the University of Munich, earning a double degree in mechanical engineering...

'Diversity (Yellow)', An abstract organically shaped sculpture reminiscent of totems. It is a spatial composition from the Void series. Composite materials and fiberglass is 84 x 25...

John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Eagles I, Year: 1983, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 175, Size: 22 x 3...

Original WW1 poster: Keep this Hand of Mercy at its work. War Fund Week. One hundred Million Dollars. Original WW1 lithograph, archival line...

Out for a breath of fresh air late on a wintery day, this adult and child are walking in a world of wonder in this painting. Crunching on the ice covering the shoveled pathway, the p...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Bob White Quails II, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP XL, Image Size: 22 x 18 inches, Siz...

Lorna Patrick, American - Portal with a View, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint [Signed and Numbered in pencil], Edition: 295, Size: 31 x 42 in. (78.74 x 106.68 cm), Description: ...

Elizabeth Zanzinger's (US based) "The Leap" is a masterfully created realistic oil landscape still-life. This painting measures at 40 x 28 inches, and is framed at 42 x 30 inches re...

Original Jim Morrison headstone rubbing by Susanne Griffie (Printed on high-quality cotton paper. Each piece is hand-signed and numbered, and it comes with a certificate of authentic...

Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) First Airplane Ride/ Old Women Riding Airplane, 1938 Originally created as cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post. Media print lithography on paper, this twelve-color lithograph was hand proofed and printed at Atelier Ettinger in December 1976. A/P Artist Proof impression on papier d'Arches. Hand signed in pencil by Norman Rockwell. hand editioned and with publishers blindstamp. Norman Percevel Rockwell (1894 – 1978) was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine in a modern folk art style over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell's works are the Willie Gillis series, Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With...

Whitford Carter (1915-1973). Didn't He Ramble?, 1964. Lithograph on paper, image measures 13 x 17 inches; 19 x 22 inches in original frame. Signed, dat...

This artwork "Breakfast in Medocino" c. 2000, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Erin Dertner, b.1957. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artw...

"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/...

Original poster: SOLDIERS-SAILOR AND WOMEN GUESTS welcome to the Y.W.C.A. hostess house "A bit of home within the camps". A sailor shakes the hand of a man while a woman is standing and smiling at them. Linen-backed original WW1 poster...

James Bonelli: 1916-2000. Listed American artist from Philadelphia who studied at PAFA. Just a few weeks ago a smaller Gloucester painting by him sold at auction for over $1600. This...

This artwork titled "Iris at Dusk" 1980 is an original color woodblock print with embossing by American artist Daniel Joshua Goldstein, b.1950....

Still Life painting. Bermuda Asparagus, ca. 1980. Watercolor and pencil on paper mounted to illustration board. Image measures 7 x 8.5 inches. Framed measurement: 10 x 12 inches. ...