Realist Art
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Color: Beige
Benita
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Benita" first state, 1981 Is an original lithograph on Wove paper by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is signed, dated and numbered 122/180 in pencil by the artist. With the blind stamp of the artist and printer. The image size is 22 x 30 inches, the sheet size is 24 x 31.75 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed, the colors are fresh bright.
About the artist:
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222)
His parents were Carl Nelson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The Mooring of Scarlet, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Pamela Wilson's (US based) "The Mooring of Scarlet" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pregnant model with a boat on top of her head.
This...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
OLD PRO Dave Wilcox San Francisco 49ers NFL Football History, Signed Lithograph
Located in Union City, NJ
OLD PRO is an original limited edition lithograph by the American artist, Merv Corning printed from hand drawn lithographic stones using traditional hand ...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This serie...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
"Poppies" Oil cm. 30 x 38 , Flowers, red, 1960 , shipping free
By Nadezhda VOROBIEVA
Located in Torino, IT
Poppies,Red ,Flowers,russian,art,1960
NADEZHDA VOROBIEVA (Moscow, 1924 - 2011)
Works by Nadezhda Vorobieva can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United Sta...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Wax Crayon, Rag Paper, Charcoal
'Neptune', Woman Artist, Berkeley Art Museum, California College of the Arts
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Created by Carole Doyle Peel (American, 1934-2016) circa 1985 and accompanied by first edition volume, 'Carole Doyle Peel: The Delight of Drawing', 2...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Waiting for the tide - Oil Acrylic Figurative Ivory Blue White Brown Green
Located in Sofia, BG
"Waiting for the tide" is a modern art line painting by Maestro Dimitar Voynov -Junior,
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: Acrylic, oil on canvas paintin...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Conceptual Floral Painting Copper ink American female artist fence Plants
By Amanda Besl
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original contemporary painting by American contemporary female artist Amanda Besl. Besl uses chemistry to create rust and copper inks.
Wholesale framing is available.
Througho...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Le matin : Cerf et Biches, 1858
By Karl Bodmer
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Swiss-born Karl Bodmer (1809–1893) was one of the first and most accomplished European artists to document the landscape of the North American interior and its Indigenous peoples. He...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed and dated, recto
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Rogers Beach
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY -- Margery Gosnell-Qua received an MFA in Painting and an MS in Art History from Pratt Inst...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled #238
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Numbered 238 in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman and drew from life model...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
"Pepper", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Pepper" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life composed of many forms of pepper: Dr. Pepper, Pepper seasoning, and hatch green pepper chilies.
About the artist:
When Dianne Massey...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Cup with Strawberries - Oil on Canvas by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror) - 2000
Located in Roma, IT
Original oil on canvas realized by Zhang Wei Guang in the early 2000s.
Includes a contemporary black frame 38x48,5 cm.
Excellent conditions.
Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
John Gould Turnstone Strepsilas Interpres, lithograph c.1850
By John Gould
Located in Soquel, CA
"Strepsilas Interpres." John Gould Turnstone lithograph c.1850 by John Gould (England, 1804-1881). Print by J. Gould & H.C. Richter, hand colored lithograph...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Lithograph
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This serie...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
An Original Photograph Sean Scully Pueblo COA Rare Important Mexico coca cola
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original C-Print from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. This work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentation. This serie...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
"Elegant Still Life of Two Stacked Cups with Golden Rims"
Located in Wellesley, MA
Olga Antonova
"Elegant Still Life of Two Stacked Cups with Golden Rims"
Oil on Canvas
10 x 20 Inches
Olga Antonova’s subject is compositions of extraor...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Man in Repose Leaning Against Post)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. ...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Conté, Paper
Landscape with River
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Landscape with River"
Artist: Alfred Vickers
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 24 x 18.5 in.
Frame size: 30 x 26 in.
A serene landscape depicting a French village situated on the...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The Red Umbrella" - Contemporary Impressionist Woman Portrait
Located in New Orleans, LA
A delightful portrait of a young lady in motion, umbrella in hand, with sure brushstrokes and wonderful mastery of color.
Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Thinker
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reclining nude has reached back to converse with Goya and Velasquez, but it is the artist's pun that brings her into today's conversation.
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled #257
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Graphite on paper
Dated in pencil, l.r.
Numbered 257 in pencil, verso
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
John Button (1929-1982) was a fine draftsman an...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Graphite, Paper
Still Life Cabbage
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elizabeth Osborne (b.1936). Still Life Cabbage, 1983. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 22.5 x 30 inches; 29.5 x 37 inches in custom frame. Original Fischbach Gallery label affixed...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Bar
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This print by Nicole Eisenman depicts one of her signature motifs: leisure time in bars and saloons, as also depicted in some of her paintings like "Br...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joseph Murray Ince Welsh Border Cottage Summer 1827 watercolour Wales Georgian
Located in London, GB
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Category
1820s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
César - Original Lithograph
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
César - Original Lithograph
1961
Dimensions: 32 x 24 cm
From the art review XXe siècle
Unsigned and unnumbered as issued
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rothenburg, Plontein
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Rothenburg, Plontein" is an color etching by noted Austrian artist Josef Eidenberger, 1899-1991 It is hand signed and titled in pencil. The plate mark (image) s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Etching
"Nest with Three Eggs, " Mixed Media Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Thane Gorek's (US based) "Nest with Two Eggs" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts three blue eggs nestled cozily together in a bird'...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Panel
Waiting Women
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork, titled "Waiting Women", 1976 is an original color lithograph by renown Navajo artist Rudolph Carl Gorman, 1932-2005. It is hand-signed, dated and numbered 63/120 in pencil by the artist, also dedicated "To Purificacion Ramirez" With the blindstamp of the artist and another blindstamp. The sheet size is 22 x 30 inches, framed size is 22.5 x 30.5 inches. Custom framed in a clear acrylic box. It is in excellent condition. The acrylic box is in good condition with a few very faint scratches.
Artist: R.C. Gorman (1932-2005)
Title: Waiting Women
Medium: Lithograph on Paper
Sheet Size: 22" x 30"
Framed size: 22.5" x 30.5"
Year Produced: 1976
Edition Size: 120 plus proofs (25 proofs) This one: 63/120
About the artist:
Born in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona and raised in a hogan on the Navajo Reservation, R.C. Gorman became one of the Southwest's best known late 20th-century artists. His signature works were Navajo women in a variety of poses. Many persons have been fascinated by the fact that he, an Indian artist, became famous in the white man's world with some calling him the "Picasso of Indian artists". Of this kind of attention, he said: "I wish people would quit pushing my being Indian. The only time I was interviewed as If I were a normal person was by the Jewish Press in Tucson. It was the first time I felt international and almost white". (Samuels 222)
His parents were Carl Nelson...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Briganti Assetati - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1820
Located in Roma, IT
Briganti assetati is a beautiful artwork realized by Bartolomeo Pinelli in 1820.
Etching and Watercolor technique. In Good condition, worn paper on the marginal line and some little...
Category
1820s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Chrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Chrysanthemums and Tiger Lilies
Signed and dated lower left (twice), see photo
Watercolor on paper, 1935
A symbol of the sun, the Japanese consider the or...
Category
1930s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
friends, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
I met them while walking in the park and was amazing the connection between two souls, they told each other their lives :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official ce...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Ketchup", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Dianne L. Massey Dunbar's (US based) "Ketchup" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Heinz Ketchup bottle, half used, with a white and tan background.
About the artist:
When Dianne Massey...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
A Set of Five Original Photographs Sean Scully Pueblo Museum COA Rare Important
By Sean Scully
Located in Buffalo, NY
A group of five original C-Prints from Sean Scully's Pueblo Dzibalchen series (A Suite of 20) created in 2001. Each work comes in a fantastic natural wood archival frame presentatio...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Winter Vegetables, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Winter vegetables on a white tablecloth. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Two Men
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper
Signed in pencil, l.l.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt L...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Conté, Charcoal
Portrait of an English Brown and White Otter, on the banks of a River Landscape
By M.Naplee
Located in Woodbury, CT
Portrait of an English Brown and White Otter, on the banks of a River Landscape.
Very Pretty English Otter, in an extensive landscape, painted circa 1970.
The painting is an amazin...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Edge of the Path", Grass Inhabited by Human, Chinese Ink and Wash Drawing
By Frank Girard
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This drawing by Frank Girard is created with Chinese ink and wash drawing on 120g/m2 neutral white paper. It is not framed.
Through drawings, the masterf...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Roman Girls Return from the Harvest - Etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli - 1819
Located in Roma, IT
Romane ritornando dalla vendemmia is a precious hand-colored etching by Bartolomeo Pinelli. The inscriptions are at the bottom, inside the matrix, and just below the image. On the le...
Category
1810s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Untitled (Man Reading Newspaper)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
Conté crayon on paper
Signed, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Mark Beard, born in 1956 in Salt Lake City, now lives in New York City. His works ...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Conté
Dimanche en Bretagne
Located in New York, NY
Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Dimanche en Bretagne, etching, 1939, signed in pencil lower left and inscribed “ep d’artite” lower right. Reference: Laboureur 543, second state (of...
Category
1930s Realist Art
Materials
Etching
Monsieur - Madame Paulhan Fly a Farman Airship 1910 Los Angeles Int. Air Show
By Roy Christian
Located in Soquel, CA
Reprint of a vintage photograph titled "Monsieur (Louis) and Madame Paulhan of France ready to fly a Farman model lll in Los Angeles - 1910 from an original photograph by an unknown ...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Love is Evergreen, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pollinators Series: Red-edged cream rose seen on edge with a green iridescent Japanese beetle visitor ready to fly away. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official c...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
La Lettre du Fils (The Son's Letter)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "La Lettre du Fils" (The Son's Letter) 1938 is an original color woodcut by French artist Paul Jacoulet, 1896-1960. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist, wit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Woodcut
"Indirect", contemporary abstract realism, female form on a peach background
By Erin Cone
Located in Dallas, TX
Known for her bold visionary take on figurative realism, Erin Cone has twice been recognized in the national art press as one of the top young emerging artists in the country. After ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
WESTERN PEAKS
Located in Santa Monica, CA
HAROLD LUKENS DOOLITTLE (1873 - 1974)
WESTERN PEAKS c. 1945
Aquatint signed and titled in pencil. 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 sheet 9 5/8 x 12 3/4.
Good condition save for just a hint of darkening within the window and small bits if tape on the sheet edge verso.
Doolittle was a renaissance man. His day job was as an engineer for the Edison Electric Co. But he produced an outstanding body of prints for 5 decades as well as photographs. His very rare arts and crafts furniture is highly sought after. He was a long time member and officer in the California Print...
Category
1940s Realist Art
Materials
Aquatint
Cherries, Oil on canvas by Zhang Wei Guang - 2000s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas - 40x50 cm.
Hand signed lower right.
In excellent conditions, it includes a contemporary wooden frame with gilded edges.
Zhang Wei Guang, also called ‘mirror' was bo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Modern Abstract Photograph of a Pink and Gold Building with Window
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract photograph of the side of a building with pink and gold accents by the Texas artist Mark Greene. The off-centered window is balanced by the extension of the black mat...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Photographic Film
Cuauhtémoc, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cuauhtémoc, 1982
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 15 x 21.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays the 20th Century ship titled: Cuauhtemoc, 1982.
ARM Cuauhtémoc is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, named for the last Mexica Hueyi Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc who was captured and executed in 1525.
She is the last of four sister...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
"Turquoise Seas, " Sears Gallagher, realist, watercolor
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Painter and etcher Sears Gallagher was born in Boston in 1869. Gallagher studied in Boston with Samuel Peter Rolt Triscott in the 1880s as well as at the Parisian Académie Julian in ...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
MIDWEST #4
By Yale Factor
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Factor brings into a clear focus natural detail, which is all too often only vaguely sensed. Each universe created on canvas or paper is a juxtaposition of traditional Renaissance c...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trinity College Cambridge Great Court watercolour by J T Neville
Located in London, GB
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Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Christ Church Oxford College, William Nicholson lithograph 1905 Stafford Gallery
Located in London, GB
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William Nicholson
Canterbury Gate, Christ Church, Oxford College
Published by Stafford Gallery...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gota Lejon, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Göta Lejon, 1746.
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 15 x 21.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well lis...
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Lips in Perspective, Nude Lithograph by Roberto Carbone
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lips in Perspective
Roberto Carbone, Italian (1949)
Date: 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 27 in. x 20 in. (68.58 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
English tea Clipper ship in full sail at sea with the Sun rising
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very Well painted English Tea Clipper in full sail at sea during Sunrise.
Allan was a mid 20th century English marine painter.
This is a very fine exam...
Category
1930s Realist Art
Materials
Gouache
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