Ian Hornak Art

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1964 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: E...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: E...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: E...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Male Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 18 x 23 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Est...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Female and Male Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: E...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Male Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 18 x 23 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate o...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Original drawing on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Renaissance Female Nude Figure Study Year: circa 1963 Medium: Charcoal on vélin paper Size: 23 x 18 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Still Life) Untitled Year: circa 1964 Medium: Acrylic on illustration board Size: 10 x 9 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of ...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Still Life with Chessboard) Untitled Year: circa 1964 Medium: Acrylic on illustration board Size: 14 x 11 inches Condition: Good Prove...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Landscape with Angel) Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 9 x 12 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian ...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: (Abstract Landscape with Trees) Untitled Year: 2001 Medium: Ink on archival paper Size: 11 x 14 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Scottish Rockscape) Year: 1973 Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper Size: 22 x 30 inches Condition: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Horn...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract African American Male Figure Study) Year: 1963 Medium: Ink on heavy archival paper Size: 1...

This exquisite woodcut by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Forbidden Fruit, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hor...

This exquisite lithograph by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Birds, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s a...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Bestiary, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s artist...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Portrait of Dorothy, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Transformation, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Horna...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Portrait of D.F., was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Entrance, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s ar...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Study for a Pieta, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of H...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Knights, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s ar...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Sandpit #2, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Horn...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Self-Portrait, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s a...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Birds in Flight, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hor...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Saint George and the Dragon, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s artistic development, this dramatic composition reveals the young artist’s fascination with mythology, religious narratives, and heroic imagery. Rendered within a circular format reminiscent of a Renaissance tondo or medallion, the work depicts the rearing horse and descending lance of Saint George at the climactic moment of battle with the dragon. Rather than emphasizing narrative detail, Hornak focuses on the powerful movement and sculptural anatomy of the horse, transforming the legendary subject into an elegant study of tension, balance, and heroic action. The image reflects the artist’s early engagement with art historical traditions while demonstrating the expressive linear qualities that would remain central to his mature work. As one of the scarce surviving prints from Hornak’s student years, this etching provides valuable insight into the origins of the artist’s visual language and his enduring interest in symbolism and mythology. Executed in etching on velin Canson et Montgolfier paper, the plate measures 13.5 inches in diameter (34.3 cm diameter). Unsigned; estate stamped, verso. Artwork Details: Artist: Ian Hornak (1944–2002) Title: Saint George and the Dragon Medium: Etching on velin Canson et Montgolfier paper Dimensions: 13.5 inches diameter (34.3 cm diameter) (plate size) Inscription: Unsigned; estate stamped, verso Edition: Approx. XXV Date: Circa 1965 Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, New York About the Artist: Ian Hornak (1944–2002) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and pioneering force in Photorealism and Hyperrealism whose extraordinary technical mastery, visionary imagination, and innovative approach to realism established him as one of the most distinctive and original artists of the late twentieth century. Widely recognized as a founding member of both the Photorealist and Hyperrealist movements, Hornak helped redefine the possibilities of contemporary realism by combining photographic precision with symbolism, romanticism, mythology, environmental awareness, art historical references, and metaphysical inquiry, creating a body of work that stands apart within postwar American art for both its visual brilliance and intellectual ambition. Born in Philadelphia and raised in Michigan before establishing his career in New York and East Hampton, Hornak emerged during one of the most transformative periods in modern art and developed a highly individual visual language that transcended conventional artistic categories. His artistic vision reflects an awareness of the revolutionary innovations introduced by Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, while simultaneously drawing inspiration from the Hudson River School, particularly Frederic Edwin Church, Martin Johnson Heade, Thomas Cole, and Albert Bierstadt, as well as the spiritual landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich and the botanical precision of Dutch Golden Age masters. Through this extraordinary synthesis of influences, Hornak created a visual language that united scientific observation, photographic realism, romantic grandeur, allegorical symbolism, and philosophical reflection into a form entirely his own. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Hornak emerged as one of the earliest artists associated with the newly developing Photorealist movement, producing panoramic landscapes of astonishing complexity and technical sophistication that challenged prevailing assumptions regarding realism and representation. These innovations earned widespread critical acclaim and positioned Hornak alongside major contemporaries such as Chuck Close, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle, Malcolm Morley, Richard McLean, and Don Eddy, yet his work remained distinguished by its emotional resonance and symbolic depth. As his career evolved, Hornak increasingly moved beyond the concerns of mainstream Photorealism and developed a more personal and ambitious artistic vision, culminating in the monumental botanical and allegorical masterpieces of the 1980s and 1990s that many scholars regard as the pinnacle of his achievement. Throughout his career, Hornak was represented by influential galleries including Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Fischbach Gallery, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, and Armstrong Gallery, exhibiting extensively in New York and internationally. His work received praise from The New York Times, which described him as being “right at the top of romantically descriptive painters today.” Today, his paintings, drawings, and prints remain highly sought after by collectors who recognize their rarity, beauty, technical excellence, and historical importance, while his personal papers are preserved in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. His highest recorded sale was achieved in 2017, when Large Orchid Bouquet (1988) was sold in a private transaction conducted in association with the heir of the Ian Hornak estate to the Van Andel family, co-owners of Amway, for US$165,000 ($219,168.11 adjusted to 2025 dollars), underscoring the growing recognition of an artist whose significance within the history of American realism continues to expand. Ian Hornak etching, Saint George and the Dragon, mythological print...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Frog-Prince, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Evening, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s artisti...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Studies of Seed Pods, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years o...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Studies of Seed Pods, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years o...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Petrarch in the Forest, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of H...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Study for a Pieta, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of H...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Saint George Etude, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Knights, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s ar...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Massacre of the Innocents, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formativ...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Masquerade, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Dead, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s artis...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Rocky Embankment, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Fallen Tree in Winter, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Ho...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Rose in Repose, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s ...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Saint Sebastian, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hor...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Saint George Etude, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled David and Saul, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Horn...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled David and Saul, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Horn...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Figure, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s art...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Figure, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s art...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Winter Landscape, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Winter Landscape, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled A Young Dromedary, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of H...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled A Young Dromedary, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of H...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Self-Portrait as Saint George, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formativ...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Annunciation, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Ho...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled A Hero’s Music, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative years of Horn...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Flowering Geranium Study, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formative yea...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled Head of a Young Man in Shadow, was executed circa 1963 during the artist’s undergraduate studies. Created during the formativ...

This exquisite etching by Ian Hornak (1944–2002), titled The Raven, was executed circa 1965 during the artist’s graduate studies. Created during the formative years of Hornak’s artis...