Ackrill Grapes
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Found Objects, Oil
People Also Browsed
Vintage 1940s American Other Paintings
Masonite
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings
Found Objects, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Nude Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Paint
1990s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Still-life Paintings
Wood, Found Objects, Oil
Antique 1880s French Barbizon School Paintings
Paint
Antique Late 19th Century American Barbizon School Paintings
Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Paint
Mid-20th Century American Paintings
Canvas, Paint
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Paint
Anthony Ackrill for sale on 1stDibs
Anthony Ackrill was born in Alaska in 1958 but spent most of his childhood in Florida and Ohio. He decided to pursue painting at a relatively late age. Subsequently, he studied graphic design and worked as an art director at an established advertising agency. Also, he designed his line of humorous greeting cards, which sold internationally. Following this period, Ackrill began to study drawing and painting on his own. After winning awards in several local and regional art contests, as well as selling some of his paintings, he sought a more formal education to help develop his talent. Ackrill found an excellent atelier-styled school for artists in Florence, Italy, and enrolled in late 1995, at the age of 37. In his second year in Florence, Ackrill began teaching anatomy to his fellow students, and then also taught drawing and painting. After five years of painting and teaching in Florence, Italy, he returned to Florida, where he now has his studio.
Finding the Right still-life-paintings for You
Still-life paintings work as part of the decor in nearly every type of space.
Still-life art, which includes work produced in media such as painting, photography, video and more, is a popular genre in Western art. However, the depiction of still life in color goes back to Ancient Egypt, where paintings on the interior walls of tombs portrayed the objects — such as food — that a person would take into the afterlife. Ancient Greek and Roman mosaics and pottery also often depicted food. Indeed, still-life paintings frequently feature food, flowers or man-made objects. By definition, still-life art represents anything that is considered inanimate.
During the Middle Ages, the still life genre was adapted by artists who illustrated religious manuscripts. A common theme of these paintings is the reminder that life is fleeting. This is especially true of vanitas, a kind of still life with roots in the Netherlands during the 17th century, which was built on themes such as death and decay and featured skulls and objects such as rotten fruit. In northern Europe during the 1600s, painters consulted botanical texts to accurately depict the flowers and plants that were the subject of their work.
Leonardo da Vinci’s penchant for observing phenomena in nature and filling notebooks with drawings and notes helped him improve as an artist of still-life paintings. Vincent van Gogh, an artist who made a couple of the most expensive paintings ever sold, carried out rich experiments with color over the course of painting hundreds of still lifes, and we can argue that Campbell’s Soup Cans (1961–62) by Andy Warhol counts as still-life art.
While early examples were primarily figurative, you can find still lifes that belong to different schools and styles of painting, such as Cubism, Impressionism and contemporary art.
As part of the wall decor in your living room, dining room or elsewhere, a still-life painting can look sophisticated alongside your well-curated decorative objects and can help set the mood in a space.
When shopping for a still-life painting, think about how it makes you feel and how the artist chose to represent its subject. When buying any art for your home, choose pieces that you connect with. If you’re shopping online, read the description of the work to learn about the artist and check the price and shipping information. Make sure that the works you choose complement or relate to your overall theme and furniture style. Artwork can either fit into your room’s color scheme or serve as an accent piece. Introduce new textures to a space by choosing an oil still-life painting.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of still-life paintings in a wide range of styles and subject matter.