American Realist Art

Post Office WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Modern 20th Century Carlos Lopez (1910-1953) "Bounty" WPA Mural Study for Michigan Post Office 19 ½ x 22 ½ inches Oil on B...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Good Takings, Year: 1991, Medium: Gouache on Board, signed and dated l.r., Size: 10 in. x 17 in. (25.4 cm x 43.18 cm), Frame Size: 17.5 x 2...

Lorna Patrick, American - Desert View, Year: 1981, Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 256/295, Image Size: 27 x 38 inches, Size: 34 x 44 in. (86.36 x...

This artwork "Panda" c.1990 is an offset lithograph by noted animals wildlife artist Jacquie Marie Vaux. It is hand signed and numbered 379/750 in p...

WARNING! Register*Vote, INFLATION means DEPRESSION Photo lithograph, 1946 Signed in the image lower left Published by CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) before their merger w...

This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing About the Painting Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast. About the Artist Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...

Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Crossing" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and a weathered crossing sign. Sometimes they are silent epic landscapes of the ...

"Misty Sunrise" with soft pastels and glowing water reflections in a peaceful harbor is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful oil exhibits all of t...

Hudson - Animar Valley Bill Sullivan, American (1942) Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of 200 Size: 38 x 50 in. (96.52 x 127 cm)

Original vintage poster: YOU Buy a Liberty Bond. Linen Backed World War 1 bonds poster. Archival linen backed in good condition; ready to frame. Artist: C . R. Macauley created...

The painting features a 3/4 bust portrait of a refined lady from the Verplanck family of Orange County, New York. The painting shows a young woman seated for her portrait in a fine b...

Harvest on the Kitchen Counter - Contemporary Still Life in Oil on Canvas Vibrant still life of vegetable by Lynne Patton (American, b. 1955). Several garden vegetable are laid out ...

"God Bless Our Home" is an interior and figurative scene of a woman sitting on her couch in serious and proper expression. The Americana style paint...

This deftly rendered mid-20th-century ink drawing on paper board was apparently done on assignment for a fashion brand that was most likely published in a newspaper or catalog. Signe...

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While on a summer hike in the woods, Jo discovered this stream and small pool of water. She says she couldn't resist stopping and dipping her feet in the cool...

"Approach to Lee's Ferry" by Kim Whitesides, oil on canvas, 18 X 22 inches (Framed size: 21.5 x 25.5 inches) Whitesides made an impact in the art community at a very young age. While working as an illustrator in New York City from the late 60s through the mid 80s, his paintings appeared in many publications, including Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and Playboy. He received numerous awards from The Art Directors Club of New York and The Society of Illustrators. It was at this time that Whitesides began a period of bold work with the airbrush that emphasized the simplified spaces and clean lines of art deco and art moderne, for which he gained a national reputation. A native Utahn, Whitesides believes art is a language and an opportunity for his vision to inspire others. He continues to grow as an artist, as his art is constantly opening doors on new vistas...

This artwork titled "Open Doors" c. 2000, is a watercolor on paper by noted California artist Erin Dertner, b.1957. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The artwork s...

Lowell Blair Nesbitt's crisp rendering of a white rose is emblematic of the artist's realistic style and emphasis on light. Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Tit...

Summer Shadows, Wiscasset, Maine Lithograph, 1947 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) "Ed. 85" lower left corner (see photo) Edition: 85 Wiscasset, known as the "prettiest villa...

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Artist: Jack Beal, American (1931 - 2013) Title: Blue Crab Year: circa 1975 Medium: Screenprint, Signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 52 Image Size: 9 x 12...

An oil painting of a street in Sag Harbor, NY. A simple, modest scene set in the Fabulous Hamptons. This section of Division street is where a number of local churches are based and ...

Artist: Fil Mottola, American (1915 - 2008) Title: Market Place, Taxco Mexico Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. Size: 30 x 40 inches [76 x 102.5 cm] Framed: 38 x 48 inches [96.5 ...

Artist: Jack Beal, American (1931 - 2013) Title: Buds Year: circa 1975 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 50 Size: 31 in. x 41 in. (78.74 cm x 104.14 cm)

Original Arizona Oak Creek Canyon TWA Constellation aircraft vintage travel poster. Archival linen backed from the 1950s Excellent condition, ready to frame. Although a few of these posters for Oak Creek Canyon have survived, few if any survived in such fabulous condition. Just south of Flagstaff...

'Paragon park, 1997' a highly collectable original watercolor by internationally acclaimed American Realist James Torlakson. The art is 10 x 10 inches ...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Redtail Landing, Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Size: ...

"Apaches" is an oil on canvas painting by Olaf Wieghorst. The painting is signed on the lower left, "O-Wieghorst". The framed piece measures 25 1/2 x 29 3/4 x 2 in. “When the time comes for me to put away my palette and unsaddle my pony for the last time, I hope that my canvases will in some small measure add to the historical recording of an era, the cowboy, and the great American West.” ~ Olaf Wieghorst Wieghorst worked with the mounted patrol of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Cavalry (1920-1922) with occasional interludes as a wrangler on ranches in the western states. Wherever he went, he sketched and painted the Western culture he loved, often selling his work as calendar and magazine illustrations. His work appeared in Zane Grey...

This artwork titled "Evening Fog, Moss Landing, California" 1970, is a watercolor on paper by noted French/American artist Albert Bechely Crundall, 1906-1997. It is signed at the low...

This is an important, large tempera painting of the sand dunes that line Michigan's coast. Zolton Sepeshy, who lived and painted in Michigan, also wrote a book on tempera painting. ...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - US Open Golf Tournament, Year: 1977, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 600, Size: 19 x 22 in. (48.26 x 55.88 cm)

Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well listed and important African American artist. He was born in Ne Jersey but moved at a young age to Massachusetts. He graduated in 1936 from the Sc...

Arthur Szyk, Polish/American (1894 - 1951) - Declaration by The Representatives, Year: 1950, Medium: Offset Lithograph, signed and dated in the plate lower right, Image Size: 29 x...

"Harbor Rainbow" with rippling water reflections of the blue boat floating in the sea is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful hand pulled 90 color ...

Original vintage poster: Half sheet original movie poster "POCKET MONEY" with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin. Two of the most memorable characters the west can never forget!. Lower left the GP notice was changed with a 'snipe' covering the previous rating of this movie. Cast: Paul Newman, Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Christine Belford, Wayne Rogers...

Original vintage travel poster: Germany by SAS (Scandinavian Airline System). Artist: Otto Nielsen. Size: 25 x 39.5" Archival linen backed original vintage travel poster; ex...

Meditation and Minou Color lithograph and serigraph, 1980 Signed and numbered in pencil (see photo) Printer Styria Studio, Inc. New York Publisher: Harry Abrams...

Judd Mercer's "Summer Falls" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a stream cutting through a forest as a log creates a natural bridge over it...

Matthew Paoletti's "U.P." is an original, handmade oil painting. Education:​ The Art Institute of Chicago. American Academy of Art Chicago ​ Leo Burnett Co. 1990-97 Illustrator/art ...

Original I'LL CARRY MINE TOO! ORIGINAL VINTAGE WWII POSTER. Artist: Valentino Sarra. Size: 22" x 28". Year: 1943. Original U. S. Government World War II vintage poster. Professional archival linen backing; ready to frame. Original WWII fold marks restored during linen backing. (All WWII U. S. Government posters were folded - this is not a defect.) During World War ll conservation was a major part of the war effort. In this image we see the lady carrying her own groceries home and thereby saving wear and tear on trucks and tires as well as aiding the troops. Each citizen was encouraged to do their part in helping in the allied war effort. This is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproduction. A fun World War 2...

Original Bern - Switzerland. Artist: Leutenegger. Year: 1941. Archival linen backed with some minor wear. B condition The name of this statue is also known as Gerechtigkeitsbrunnen. The blind scales of justice...

Willard Dixon, who says "the charm of Still Life painting for the artist lies in the ability to manipulate ones subject matter and in the intimate, direct nature of the painting proc...

This artwork titled "Fireside Christmas" c. 1985 is an original color etching by American artist Scott Fitzgerald. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 158/250 in pencil by the artist. Published and printed by the artist. The image (plate mark) size is 11.5 x 17.65 inches, sheet size is 19.25 x 25.25 inches. it is in excellent condition, has never been framed. About the artist: Scott Fitzgerald received his Master’s Degree in Arts from California State University Fullerton, and went on to teach drawing and printmaking for 2 years at the university. During his college years, he focused his study in contemporary art and photography, creating mixed media works often with social comments. It was not until the sophomore year, he discovered the traditional art of etching in his printmaking class. Immediately, he embraced the complex and difficult technical process of making prints from etching on copper plates. Scott Fitzgerald established himself as a prominent printmaker in the next few years. With a strong interest in history, he accepted a commission to produce a series of etching depicting 15 Orange County historical landmarks. Besides producing very intricate prints in various sizes, he has engaged in many special projects. He worked with renowned English printer John Randle to produce a group of etchings...

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

The sacrificial ceremony, Freemans The Collection of Philip Desind Signed Three times Riggs l.r. A powerful account of moments a tribe member is cut open and the heart is handed over to a young brave, There is a reason why there are few contemporary painters who can paint a portrait this good. It's hard to do. It's easy to throw some paint or spray a mess of graffiti on canvas. That's easy. To execute a portrait with a great depth of anatomy and structure takes years of academic training. In Riggs's time there were teachers who knew how to pass on this knowledge. He studied at the Art Students League and the Académie Julian . Today, they are very few and far between. - Robert Riggs was a Gay Artist...

sheet vintage movie poster for the film Escape from Fort Bravo. Directed by John Sturges. With William Holden, Eleanor Parker, John Forsythe, and William Demarest. Very good condition. A western film set during the American Civil War. Original theater-issued fold marks touched up and restored during linen backing. Very fine condition with no tears, no fading, and no damage to this 70-year plus vintage poster. This is an original One Sheet Poster. It was distributed by the film studio for marketing purposes and was not available for sale. The archival linen backed protects the old movie posters...

This mid-1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a couple sunbathing by the sea at Palm Beach, Florida. This is an estate stamped and hand ...

This piece "Moon Light Barn" is a 20x16 original painting by the artist John Mansueto. Depicted is a a solitary barn late at night. A single light shines on the ride side of the barn...

An original charcoal drawing of a football player in his uniform circa 1910. This work is initialed what appears to be "e.w." with the phrase "1/2 hr" written below. We have not be...

I think of my work as being like a visual journal- observations and interpretations of people, places and things I experience day to day. Translating that experience into two dimensi...

Original WW1 poster. Put Fighting Blood in Your Business. Here’s his record! Does he get a Job? Arthur Woods, Assistant to the Secretary of...

A Winter Morning-Shoveling Out Wood engraving, 1871, with grey ink wash added later by a skillful artist Signed with the artist's initials lower right (see photo) Signed in type fac...

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 artwork titled "House in the Sun" c.1930 is an offset lithograph on wove paper by noted Taos, New Mexico artist Kenneth Miller Adams, 1897-1966. It is signed and titled in the plate. The artwork (image) size is 6.75 x 12 inches, framed size is 13.5 x 18.25 inches. Custom framed in silver metal frame, with light grey matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some very small minor scratches, barely visible. About the artist: Painter Kenneth Adams (1897-1963) arrived on the Taos art scene in 1924, at the urging of his former instructor Andrew Dasburg. Although Adams had been born and raised less than 700 miles away in Topeka, Kansas, his journey to the Southwest had been years - and countries - in the making. Earlier in his 20s, Adams had embarked on the Midwesterner’s equivalent of a Grand Tour: Chicago, then New York City, and finally, Italy and France. From these sojourns, the artist had absorbed all the lessons in light, color, and form that renowned teachers and rolling countrysides could offer. Now, thanks to Dasburg’s invitation, Adams found he could stop traveling; he had finished honing his craft and found his muse. New Mexico - its people and its land - would be an infinite source of inspiration. Adam’s painterly devotion soon impressed the prestigious Taos Society of Artists...

The Vera Stretz Murder Trial Lithograph, 1936 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Initialed W.S. in the image lower right (see photo) Dated in the image lower right (see photo) ...

A major oil painting from American Realist painter Sarah Lamb. A unique, antique weathervane in the form of a brass grasshopper is the subject of...

Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Vanitas with Marine Corps Coin" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with an orange, a Marine Corps coin, ...

This artwork titled "String of Pearls" 1988 is an original color serigraph by noted American artist Robert (Bob) Peak, 1927-1992. It is hand signed an...

This landscape photograph by iconic mid-century photographer Slim Aarons depicts bathers by a pool at the Tahoe Tavern on the shore of Lake Tahoe, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, 1959. Immerse yourself in the nostalgic allure of Slim Aarons' 'Lake Tahoe Pool,' a stunning estate photograph that captures the essence of 1950s summer leisure at the Tahoe Tavern, California. This piece is a window into a bygone era, where bathers bask by a dazzling turquoise pool, framed by the towering majesty of pine trees, with the Sierra Nevada mountains and the pristine waters of Lake Tahoe forming a breathtaking backdrop. This idyllic scene is adorned with vintage holidaymakers lounging under chic fringed pastel umbrellas, embodying the effortless style and elegance that Aarons is renowned for. The tranquil poolside setting, framed by nature's grandeur, creates a captivating contrast between serene relaxation and the wild beauty of the Californian landscape. Slim Aarons Pool at Lake Tahoe Chromogenic Lambda print C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, Crisp detail, continuous tone and brilliant color Paper weight 210gms Matte Satin Surface Captured 1959, Printed later Collector gets the next number in the edition 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). Internal: Lake Tahoe, vintage tahoe, vintage california, vintage nevada border, vintage '50s california, 50's california, vintage poolside...

Eleanor Jones Harvey, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, writes about Bob Stuth-Wade: “Over the course of his career, Bob Stuth-Wade has examined his responses to...