Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
American, 1944-2002
Painter and draftsman Ian Hornak created vivid hyperrealist and Photorealist works, and was celebrated for his visionary incorporation of multiple-exposure photography into his landscape paintings.
The subject matter at the heart of the world’s finest Photorealist works flickers between crystal-clear reality and dreamy illusion, and Hornak’s representational art is just as compelling, enveloping the viewer with rich imagery and vibrant colors.
The painter was born John Francis Hornak in Philadelphia to Slovakian immigrants who moved to New York when he was still an infant. He became enamored of visual art at an early age — for his ninth birthday, Hornak received a set of oil paints and a book about Renaissance paintings. He reproduced many of the book’s photos of the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and others so well that they looked like the photographs themselves.
Hornak studied art at the University of Michigan and Wayne State University. After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in fine arts, he moved to New York City in 1968 and befriended Lowell Nesbitt. The realist artist introduced him to Willem de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Robert Indiana and others. Hornak resisted the Abstract Expressionist and Pop styles of the era, instead creating work that was noted for its Surrealist and even Romantic elements.
In 1970, Hornak debuted his first paintings in his multiple-exposure style. A year later, the Tibor de Nagy Gallery hosted his first New York City solo exhibition, and his prominence in the art world grew. From 1986 until his death in 2002, Hornak produced botanical and still-life paintings inspired by Flemish and Dutch masters.
Hornak’s work can be found in the permanent collections of many institutions, such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History and the Library of Congress.
On 1stDibs, find authentic Ian Hornak paintings, drawings, prints and more.
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Artist: Ian Hornak
Lilies & Mushrooms with my Parrot Kouka
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Lilies & Mushrooms with my Parrot Kouka
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 65.50 x 52.50 inches
Condition: Exc...
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1980s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$88,000 Sale Price
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Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise and Shining Parrot
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Very Baroque Flowerpiece with Red Birds of Paradise and Shining Parrot
Year: 1989
Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 58.5...
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1980s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$46,400 Sale Price
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Flower Piece with Storm, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Flower Piece with Storm
Year: 1986
Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 58.5 x 46.5 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription...
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1980s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$88,000 Sale Price
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Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Looking Toward Oyster Pond, Montauk
Year: 1983-2001
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 42 x 60 inches
Condition: Excellent
Inscription: Signed rect...
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1980s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$46,400 Sale Price
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Scarlet Blue Macaw, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Scarlet Blue Macaw
Year: 1992
Medium: Acrylic on Panel with artist painted frame
Size: 58.5 x 42.2 inches
Condition: E...
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1990s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
$70,400 Sale Price
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(Connecticut Landscape) Untitled, Ian Hornak
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Connecticut Landscape)
Year: 1983
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Size: 60 x 43 inches
Condition: Excellent
Provenance: Fischbach Gallery, N...
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1980s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$34,000 Sale Price
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(Hudson River Landscape) Untitled, 1985, Ian Hornak — Painting
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: (Hudson River Landscape) Untitled
Year: 1985
Medium: Acrylic on illustration board
Size: 12.5 x 10 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance: Estate of ...
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1980s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
$5,200 Sale Price
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Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Nocturne I: White Peacock, Black Cockatoo
Year: 1990
Medium: Acrylic on Panel, with Artist Painted Frame
Size: 58 x...
Category
1990s Photorealist Ian Hornak Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$88,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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The Comic Wood Duck
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RPA018
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
Creating is an addiction. With all the highs and lows you would expect. I am interested in the surface textures and creating paintings that portray them in realistic detail. Hopefully a viewer will feel they can run a hand over the feathers and moss, or grasp an object in the painting. This detail is usually composed in an abstract design. The design can occur naturally or be arranged by me.
RESUME
Rick Pas
b. 1958, Flint, MI
Education
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI - Bachelor of Fine Arts - Pearson Art Scholarship
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL, Take Flight
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom & Winter
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, Western Visions
Lovetts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, Braveheart
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2020 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
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2019 The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL, Environmental Impact II
Lovetts Gallery, Realism, Reveries, & Rhapsody
Gallery Victor Armendariz, New Work
2018 Gallery Victor Armendariz, Front and Center
Corporate Art Advisory, Chicago, IL, Portraits and Places: Redefining Realism
William Baczek Fine Arts, Animal Kingdom
Lovetts Gallery, Rear Window
2017 William Baczek Fine Arts, Winter, Animal Kingdom, Summer
Lovetts Gallery, The Good, the Bad, and the WTF? & Red
2016 William Baczek Fine Arts, 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Summer, & Landscape Exhibition
Monroe Community Church, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, IL, Group Exhibition
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2015 William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer
JW Marriott, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
Handwright Gallery, New Canaan, CT, Small Works
Ann Brierly Gallery, Winnetka, IL, Ann Nathan Gallery Satellite Exhibition
RJD Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY, A Magical Menagerie
2014 William Baczek Fine Arts, Spring & Landscape Exhibition
2013 Canton Museum of Art, Canton, OH, Environmental Impact
Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Interspecies
2012 Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland, MI, The Nature of Art: An Invitational Exhibition
William Baczek Fine Arts, Landscape Exhibition & Summer Exhibition
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Twisted Fish Gallery, Elk Rapids, MI, A Natural Selection
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2009 West Michigan Center for Arts & Technology, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize
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2006 WARD Gallery, Harbor Springs, MI, New Dimensions in the Natural World
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2005 Light Street Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Animal House
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The Wildlife Experience, Parker, CO, AMERICAN BIRDS: A Flight Through Time
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2004 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC, Contemporary Realism
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2001 Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, IA, 57th Juried Exhibition
Wild Wings, Lake City, MN, Fall Festival
2000 Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Birds in Art (Also 1983-85, 1987, 1992, 1994)
Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI, Midwest Winter
Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY, National 2000
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Ian Hornak animal paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Ian Hornak animal paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of animal paintings to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Ian Hornak in acrylic paint, paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Photorealist style. Not every interior allows for large Ian Hornak animal paintings, so small editions measuring 43 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Rick Pas, Stuart Dunkel, and Ariel Vargassal. Ian Hornak animal paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $5,450 and tops out at $88,000, while the average work can sell for $70,400.