Naturalistic Art

A cute baby playing with toys is captured as he/she responds to someone outside the picture plane. Haddon Sundblom is a masterful artist in the school of An...

" Preparation meets opportunity! I was staying in this airbnb in Taos, NM that had a beautiful garden that had just started to bloom. I also noticed hummingbirds that would come int...

" The terrains of Sedona is comprised of various elements that truly creates a huge "pop" of colors. I was walking on a trail and came upon this dried out branch laying on the side o...

Ed. of 5, includes white frame. With his passion for formal technique and composition, internationally renowned photographer Nathan Coe’s works exude a deep reverence for the classi...

A frightened monkey looking sideways, carved in yellow (Sienese?) marble. Origin Italy. First half of the nineteenth century.

Artist Commentary: All of my ceramic sculptures are well crafted, hand-built and one of a kind. Keywords: Abstract Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in ...

Niels Frederik Martin Rohde, born 27 May 1816 in Copenhagen, died 14 July 1886 at Frederiksberg Castle, Copenhagen, was a Danish painter. Rodhe studied, among other things, at Det Ko...

Artist Commentary: A stunning, colorful Texas sunset. Keywords: Landscape & Nature Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the ...

Fine quality Bronze Goat statue by the esteemed French sculptor Ary Bitter (1883-1973), depicting a mother goat tenderly accompanied by her two young kids...

My work uses an array of landscape forms—cities, seas, forests, deserts and other spaces—as a platform for transformation, altering the appearance of these places with the intention ...

Loch Ba [September 2021] original Oil Pain on Canvas Image size: H:90 cm x W:90 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:90 cm x W:90 cm x D:3.8cm Sold Unframed Please note that ins...

L'albero abbattuto, 1981, rif. 412 Etching inches 15.6 x 19.2 (mm 397 x 490). Contemporary Art Etcher. A prominent figure of the art of engraving in Italy, Federica Galli was born ...

Pedn Vounder coastal path view by Georgie Dowling [2021] original Oil paint on canvas Image size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:40 cm x D:2cm Sold Un...

Goat and rabbit A fine bronze sculpture of a goat eating a salad, which is being "helped" by a rabbit.  This statue by Josuë Dupon (1864 -1935) has a brown patina with golden undert...

Artist Commentary: All of my ceramic work is hand-built and one of a kind. They are labor intensive and well crafted. Keywords: Contemporary Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 mi...

This digital print on handmade paper comes in a natural wood archival framing presentation I have called the body of work that I have done over the past decade “Imaging Biodiversity...

Artist Commentary: Delicate Texas wildflower. Keywords: Landscape and Nature Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wisconsin, an old ...

This plate is unique because of the bird species' unmistakable beauty and the great scientific and artistic skill with which Elisabeth and Jhon Gould rendered it. The price quoted h...

A natural landscape painting is beautiful because it connects us to the innate tranquility and majesty of the natural world. The harmonious colors, such as the greens of forests, the...

Melodie Provenzano lived and worked in New York City until 2020. After receiving her BFA from Parsons School of Design in 1996, she freelanced for more than a decade painting windo...

This early 19th-century aquatint was engraved and colored by Mr. John Clarke after drawings by George Perry. The publication, CONCHOLOGY, OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHELLS… , was pub...

This early 19th-century aquatint was engraved and colored by Mr. John Clarke after drawings by George Perry. The publication, CONCHOLOGY, OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHELLS… , was pub...

This early 19th-century aquatint was engraved and colored by Mr. John Clarke after drawings by George Perry. The publication, CONCHOLOGY, OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHELLS… , was pub...

This early 19th-century aquatint was engraved and colored by Mr. John Clarke after drawings by George Perry. The publication, CONCHOLOGY, OR, THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SHELLS… , was pub...

La naturalidad, la pasión, el amor, el deseo, la fuerza, el coraje, la delicadeza, la energía, pero también la tristeza y la melancolía son los motores de mi vida. Todo ello me lo ha...

La naturalidad, la pasión, el amor, el deseo, la fuerza, el coraje, la delicadeza, la energía, pero también la tristeza y la melancolía son los motores de mi vida. Todo ello me lo ha...

Artist Commentary: Texas hill country sunset on a warm October evening. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Milwaukee in the town of Mequon, Wis...

Artist Commentary: A powerful storm was rolling in from west Texas when I captured this image with my camera. I painted it a few years later. The original artwork is matted and frame...

Artist Commentary: I took this as a photo in the beautiful, rugged, Texas hill country, then painted it. Keywords: Landscape Artist Biography: Judith grew up 15 miles north of Mil...

John Gould (British, 1804-1881) Nasiterna Bruijni c. 1849-1861 Hand Colored Lithograph Image Size: approx 19.5 x 13.5 inches Framed Size: 27 3/8 x 21 1/2 inches John Gould was an English ornithologist and bird artist. The Gould League in Australia was named after him. His identification of the birds now nicknamed "Darwin's finches" played a role in the inception of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Gould's work is referenced in Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species. Gould was born in Lyme Regis, Dorset, the son of a gardener, and the boy probably had a scanty education. Shortly afterwards his father obtained a position on an estate near Guildford, Surrey, and then in 1818 became foreman in the Royal Gardens of Windsor. He was for some time under the care of J T Aiton, of the Royal Gardens of Windsor. The young Gould started training as a gardener, being employed under his father at Windsor from 1818 to 1824, and he was subsequently a gardener at Ripley Castle in Yorkshire. He became an expert in the art of taxidermy, and in 1824 he set himself up in business in London as a taxidermist, and his skill led to him becoming the first Curator and Preserver at the museum of the Zoological Society of London in 1827. Gould's position brought him into contact with the country's leading naturalists, and also meant that he was often the first to see new collections of birds given to the Society. In 1830 a collection of birds arrived from the Himalayas, many not previously described. Gould published these birds in A Century of Birds from the Himalaya Mountains (1830-1832). The text was by Nicholas Aylward Vigors, and the illustrations were lithographed by Gould's wife Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Coxen of Kent. This work was followed by four more in the next seven years including Birds of Europe in five volumes - completed in 1837, with the text written by Gould himself, edited by his clerk Edwin Prince. Some of the illustrations were made by Edward Lear as part of his Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae in 1832. Lear however was in financial difficulty, and he sold the entire set of lithographs to Gould. The books were published in a very large size, imperial folio, with magnificent coloured plates. Eventually 41 of these volumes were published with about 3000 plates. They appeared in parts at £3 3s. a number, subscribed for in advance, and in spite of the heavy expense of preparing the plates, Gould succeeded in making his ventures pay and in realizing a fortune. In 1838 he and his wife moved to Australia to work on the Birds of Australia and shortly after his return to England, his wife died in 1841. When Charles Darwin presented his mammal and bird specimens collected during the second voyage of HMS Beagle to the Geological Society of London at their meeting on 4 January 1837, the bird specimens were given to Gould for identification. He set aside his paying work and at the next meeting on 10 January reported that birds from the Galápagos Islands, which Darwin had thought were blackbirds, "gross-bills" and finches were in fact "a series of ground Finches which are so peculiar" as to form "an entirely new group, containing 12 species." This story made the newspapers. In March, Darwin met Gould again, learning that his Galápagos "wren" was another species of finch and the mockingbirds he had labeled by island were separate species rather than just varieties, with relatives on the South American mainland. Subsequently Gould advised that the smaller southern Rhea specimen that had been rescued from a Christmas dinner...

La naturalidad, la pasión, el amor, el deseo, la fuerza, el coraje, la delicadeza, la energía, pero también la tristeza y la melancolía son los motores de mi vida. Todo ello me lo ha...

One calm evening in Brooklyn. One timeless painting. This scene captures the downtown Brooklyn skyline. A blue sky swirls around the last hurrah of daylight. It soothes the menacing drama of the storm cloud. Brooklyn Blue Sky...

Hans Richard von Volkmann (1860 Halle (Saale) - 1927 ibid.), Clay jug on a bench. Pencil and Watercolour on paper. 20 x 26,7 cm (visible size), 37 x 45 cm (frame), dated and monogrammed lower left "Februar 1890 - HR. V. V." - Minimally tanned. Framed behind glass in a passepartout. About the artwork Using the technique of his early youth - pencil and watercolour - Hans Richard von Volkmann depicts a still life. However, this is not a conventional indoor still life, but an open-air depiction, painted outdoors and not in the studio. It is therefore an open-air painting, characteristic of von Volkmann's oeuvre, which could have been painted in the Willingshausen colony of painters, where open-air painting was programmatically practised there and the artist stayed there that year. And indeed, this painting is a manifesto of open-air painting. Von Volkmann demonstrates that leaving the studio for the light of nature leads to an entirely new quality of art. To prove this, he uses the genre of still life, which can be described as the studio subject par excellence. Moreover, light plays an essential role in the classical still life. It is the real protagonist of the still life. And it is precisely this moment, essential to the still life, that von Volkmann exploits to demonstrate the potential of plein-air painting: He presents the objects as they appear in the sunlight. The date of February and the bare branches in the foreground make it clear that this is a clear winter day in bright sunlight. The delicate plant in the foreground casts a clearly defined shadow, as does the jug. However, the shadow is most pronounced on the jug itself: The underside of the handle appears almost black, making the top, and therefore the jug itself, shine all the more brightly. The shining of the objects in the sunlight is also visible on the bench. As complementary phenomena to the shadow zones, light edges can be seen on the boards of the seats and the upper foot of the bench shines entirely in the light. To achieve this intensity of light, von Volkmann activated the bright white of the painting ground. By depicting the objects in glistening sunlight, von Volkmann demonstrates that this quality of light is only to be found outdoors. And this light leads to a new way of looking at the objects themselves. The jug on the bench seems like an accidental arrangement, as if the artist had stumbled upon this unintentional still life and captured it with fascination. And in this fascination there is a moment of realisation that refers to the objects themselves. It is only when they shine brightly in the sunlight that their true nature is revealed. In this way, sunlight allows the objects to come into their own, so to speak. Sunlight, which is not present in the studio, gives the still life an entirely new dimension of reality, which is also reflected in the colours interwoven by the sunlight: The bench and the jug stand in a harmonious grey-pink contrast to the green of the implied meadow. The emphasis on the jug as the central subject of the picture also implies that the watercolour has not been completed. This non finito inscribes a processuality into the picture, making it clear that something processual has been depicted, the temporality of which has been made artistically permanent. This is why von Volkmann signed the painting and dated it to the month. About the Artist Von Volkmann made his first artistic attempts at the age of 14. He painted many watercolours of his home town of Halle. This laid the foundation for his later outdoor painting. In 1880 his autodidactic beginnings were professionalised with his admission to the Düsseldorf Art Academy. There he studied under Hugo Crola, Heinrich Lauenstein, Johann Peter Theodor Janssen and Eduard von Gebhardt until 1888. Von Volkmann then moved to the Karlsruhe Academy, where he was Gustav Schönleber's master pupil until 1892. In 1883 he came for the first time to Willingshausen, Germany's oldest painters' colony, at the suggestion of his student friend Adolf Lins...

This plate is unique because of the bird species' unmistakable beauty and the great scientific and artistic skill with which Elisabeth and Jhon Gould rendered it. The price quoted h...

Eric Forlee American, b. 1949 Cheetah Oil on canvas 24 by 36 in, w/ frame 34 by 46 in Signed and dated ‘Eric Forlee 90’ A painter of large wild African animals from portraits to pa...

In the work we can see a naked couple in what appears to be the beginning of sexual relations.

Black and white photograph by Houston, Texas photographer, Nash Baker, of the Chapel of St. Basil. Titled, signed, and dated by artist on matte. Matted and framed in black aluminum f...

Black and white photograph by Houston, Texas photographer, Nash Baker, of the Chapel of St. Basil's cross window and crucifixion procession sculpture. Titled, signed, and dated by ar...

Otto Eichinger Austrian, 1922 – 2004 Still Life with Cherries Oil on panel 10 ¼ by 12 ¾ in, w/ frame 17 ¼ by 19 ¾ in Signed lower right Otto Eichinger was born in 1922 in Vienna, A...

It is only after we emerged from the horrible Pandemic, that we realized what a battle it was for simple daily living. Tom created The Battle a few years into the Pandemic. The pict...

Karl Kaufmann was an Austrian painter best known for his depictions of cities and landscapes throughout Europe. His work is notably atmospheric, and often highlights the particular a...

Still Life, sunflowers in the fall. 1984, paper, watercolor, 59x71 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technic. She paint figural compositions, portraits, lands...

Wreath. Paper, lithograph, 29x24 cm Apsitis Aleksandrs (1880. 06. 04. Riga – 1943. 19. 09. Germany) – painter, graphic artist. 1894. – His family gone to St. Petersburg and in this time to his made copies from good known artists. (1898. – 1999.) – he learned at the art Studio of L. Dmitriev – Kavkazski. He is best known as a book and journals graphic (his pseudonyms were Aspids, A. Petrovs, Čūska, Skits, Oseņevs and others). In this time living at St. Petersburg and Moscow he cooperated with journals «Родина», «Нива», «Звезда» (1902. – 1906.), and also with book publishes I. Sitina, A. Stupina and P. Soikina. He illustrated a Russian classic writer’s books (A.Chechov, I. Turgenev, M. Gorky, M. Saltikov - Scedrin and others). 1912. – Illustrated the jubilee edition to L. Tolstoy „War and Peace”; 1913. – Illustrating to first Russian’s children...

Figurative seated nude study of a woman draping fabric around herself. The work is signed by Thierry Andre thought to be a French who was influenced by Edgar Degas. The paper is not ...

Nude woman study sitting on the end of a bed. She is looking out at the viewer. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Ma...

An excellent portrait of french women looking straight out at the viewer. The work is signed by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many oth...

Seated nude women study in a naturalistic style. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

A naturalistic study of a nude woman standing with her back to the viewer. She appears to be gripping the corner of something. The work is signed and dated by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

Study of a woman reclining with her arm behind her head like the famous painting by Renaissance artist Titian's Venus of Urbino. She has on a loose dre...

Study of a cow strapped into a cow holder with one of its hine leg lifted. The work is stamped by the artist. The work is not framed. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

Figurative study of a woman in her undergarments and elderly men's profile. The work is stamped by the artist. The paper is not framed. Many others are available. Please inquire to buy the entire collection. Artist Biography: Emile Lejeune...

Photography of a landscape with trees. The work is in a deep tone. It is signed in pencil by the artist. The photograph is framed in a black frame with a white matte. Artist Biograp...

Black and white photograph of a machine used in the early to the late 20th century to assist people who suffered from diseases like polio and certain poisons. The photograph is frame...

Watercolor painting with boats at a dock in Kemah, Texas. The painting is in natural tones of blue and browns. The artist signed, dated and titled the painting. The artist Perry...

Zebra, but with a distinctive and artistic twist, its traditional black and white stripes have been replaced by an explosion of rainbow colors.

#garden #sculpture #contempraryart #decoration #outdoors #bronze #nature #acorn This large bronze sculpture is a contemporary art piece which can also serve as art for the garden or outdoors. María José de...

This plate is unique because of the bird species' unmistakable beauty and the great scientific and artistic skill with which Elisabeth and Jhon Gould rendered it. The price quoted h...

This artwork presents a hauntingly surreal scene that captivates the viewer's attention with its enigmatic composition. At the center, a pale figure emerges amongst a tangle of dark ...

Half-length giraffe, with striking eyes and vibrant colors

My work uses an array of landscape forms—cities, seas, forests, deserts and other spaces—as a platform for transformation, altering the appearance of these places with the intention ...