Poinsettia
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 16 x 12 inches Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 14.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Cor...
Oil, Panel
$2,800
"Meat" contemporary realist oil painting by American artist, raw, uncooked, chef
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 12 x 16 inches Framed dimensions: 14.5 x 18.5 inches Framed in a black frame with silver trim. Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand...
Linen, Oil, Panel
$2,200
"Secret Beach" oil painting, path to a lighthouse, realist seascape in frame
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 12 x 8 inches Framed dimensions: 14 x 10 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Core Pro...
Oil, Panel
$2,800
"Poinsettia 2" oil painting of red and green christmas plant, potted. Framed
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 14 x 11 inches Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 13.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Cor...
Oil, Panel
Cherries, Study
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 9 x 13 inches Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 15.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Core...
Oil, Panel
Rainbow Cake
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 9 x 12 inches Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 14.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Core...
Oil, Panel
Rainbows
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 9 x 12 inches Framed dimensions: 11.5 x 14.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Core...
Oil, Panel
Cherries with Wooden Bowl
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 16 x 24 inches Framed dimensions: 18.5 x 26.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Cor...
Oil, Panel
Cherries with Clay Pot
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 14 x 16 inches Framed dimensions: 16.5 x 18.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Cor...
Oil, Panel, Linen
Coffee, Fireworks, and Amphetamines
By Matthew Weigle
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painting dimensions: 11 x 14 inches Framed dimensions: 13.5 x 16.5 inches Matthew Weigle 1978 Pittsburgh, PA EDUCATION: 2009-2013 Grand Central Academy/Water Street Atelier, Cor...
Linen, Oil, Panel
Vintage Gerbera Daisy Red Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist sill life. Framed. Measuring: 28 by 24 inches overall and 24 by 20 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Canvas, Oil
$1,500
H 27.25 in W 20.25 in D 1.5 in
Red Flowers - Contemporary Abstract Botanical Red Flowers Green Leaves, 2014
By Francis Sills
Located in Kent, CT
Dark burgundy red flowers with lush, leaves in verdant shades of green are loosely depicted in oil and graphite on white paper. Signed on recto, lower right corner. Framed in a sol...
Paper, Oil, Graphite
$2,800
H 16 in W 20 in
Landscape Painting by New England Artist David P. Curtis "Sweet Sound"
Located in Rockport, MA
Step into the tranquility of a quiet cove in this serene coastal scene. The shimmering reflections on the water and the soft clouds drifting across the sky invite you to pause and ta...
Oil
Vitrum Umbrae 02, Oil Painting
By Christopher Garvey
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Christopher Garvey presents a group of varying glassware in different colors, sizes, and shapes. Set against a tonal background, the focus is drawn to ...
Oil
$3,803
H 19.69 in W 15.75 in D 1.58 in
Wavelength-Original contemporary still life realistic painting- modern art
By Blair Atherholt
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Oil, Board
$2,257Sale Price|57% Off
H 27.5 in W 31.75 in D 1.25 in
Paul K. Smith Zinnia Flowers Still Life Oil Modernist Studio Painting
Located in Denver, CO
A vibrant and highly collectible American Modernist still life by Paul Kauvar Smith, this original oil on board presents a richly composed studio scene centered on a bouquet of zinni...
Oil
Focus, Oil Painting
By Christopher Garvey
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"Being a single father and working a full-time job limits the time I have to paint," shares artist Christopher Garvey. "This painting is an allegory that repr...
Oil
$466Sale Price|33% Off
H 5.91 in W 15.75 in
Beach with Dunes Oil on Board Seascape, Realist, Framed, 2010-
By Alberto Biesok
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Artist: Alberto Biesok (1981, Spanish-German) Title: Beach with Dunes Year: 2019 Medium: Oil on panel Dimensions (artwork) Height: 15 cm Width: 40 cm (5.91 × 15.75 in) Dimensions (...
Board, Oil
$680Sale Price|20% Off
H 13.38 in W 15.38 in D 1.5 in
Beach & Ocean Impressionistic Seascape Oil Painting Dunes by Michael Budden
By Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Summer Dunes Oil/panel signed LL 8 x 10 unframed, 13.38 x 15.38 framed Summer Dunes is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a ...
Oil
$850
H 9.5 in W 11.5 in D 1 in
Beach & Ocean Impressionistic Seascape Oil Painting Michael Budden Summer Sky
By Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Summer Sky oil/panel 6 x 8 unframed, 9.5 x 11.5 framed Summer Sky is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful day at t...
Oil
$25,000
H 40 in W 52 in
"Sconset Bluff Walk" Nantucket landscape painting by Marla Korr
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
Canvas size: Frame: 40 x 52 in. Frame size: Frame: 46 3/4 x 58 3/4 in. signed lower left This painting depicts the iconic path among the Siasconset (Sconset) cottages on Nantucket I...
Canvas, Oil
$960Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.5 in W 19.5 in D 1.5 in
Beach & Ocean Impressionistic Seascape Oil Painting with Dunes by Michael Budden
By Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Dunes & Beach Path 11 x 14 unframed and 16.5 x 19.5 framed signed LL Dunes & Beach Path is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases...
Oil
Vitrum Umbrae 03, Oil Painting
By Christopher Garvey
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A realistic painting of an assortment of glassware set atop a wooden desk by artist Christopher Garvey. A fitting muted background completes the scene heighte...
Oil
Red (Floral Still Life)
By Elizabeth Osborne
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elizabeth Osborne (American/Philadelphia, b. 1936) "Red." Watercolor on paper. 1991/1992. Signed and dated l.r.. Sight: 9" x 12". Frame: 18 1/4" x 21 1/2". Provenance: Purchased...
Watercolor, Rag Paper
$1,100
H 31.5 in W 31.5 in D 1.58 in
French Contemporary Art by Claudine Picard - Bicolore
By Claudine Picard
Located in Paris, IDF
Claudine Picard is a French artist born in 1949 who lives & works in Sainte Marie, France. She is graduated from the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in 1973 (ENSAD).
Canvas, Oil
$380Sale Price|20% Off
H 12 in W 20 in D 2 in
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Lighthouse View Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist coastal view with a lighthouse. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Canvas, Oil
$9,382Sale Price|30% Off
H 15.75 in W 18.12 in
Still Life with Oysters - The earliest known still life in Swedish art history
Located in Stockholm, SE
This previously unpublished painting was first securely attributed to Govert Dircksz Camphuysen in 1944, following an examination at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm during which the ...
Oak, Oil, Wood Panel
$4,200
H 19 in W 17 in
"Dad's Hand Drill" Oil painting - trompe l'oeil realism - vintage tool - framed
By John Morfis
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
This is an oil painting, in the style of "Trompe l-oeil" of an antique hand drill, on a grey background. Painted by American contemporary painter, John Morfis. John Morfis was bor...
Oil, Linen, Panel
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.
With a solo show at the Denver Art Museum and a commission from the Met, the Cree Canadian painter has become an international sensation.
An exhibition organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Maine's Portland Museum of Art shows the artist's works in a new light.