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Style: American Realist
1956 Ford Thunderbird, Oil Painting by John McCormick
By John McCormick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John McCormick, American
Title: 1956 Ford Thunderbird
Year: 1983
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 in. x 32 in. (45.72 cm x 81.28 cm)
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
George Washington Marine Procession New York Presidential Inauguration, Life Mag
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
"The Great Man Comes to Take His Oath" Life Magazine Spread, July 4th, 1960, This epic narrative depicts the celebration of George Washington's inauguration, en route to Federal Hall...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman, Early American Portraiture, Sideburns, Cleft Chin
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Portrait of a Gentlemen, c. 1835
Oil on Canvas
30" x 25"
Housed in a 2 1/2" Frame
Overall Size: 34 1/2" x 29 1/2"
Craquelure throughout, some inpainting. In otherwise good condi...
Category
Early 19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Still Life in Delft
By Ginny Williams
Located in Wenham, MA
This is an original oil painting on by Ginny Williams. Celebrating the elements of still life often found in paintings of the Dutch golden age, this piece showcases blue and white po...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Arctic Stream in Forest Landscape with Lush Green by 20th Century British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Arctic Stream in Forest Landscape with Lush Greens & Blues by 20th Century British Artist, Jack Strickland
Art measures 16 x 20 inches
Frame measures 19 x 23 inches
Original, Oi...
Category
1970s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait of a Girl, American Portraiture, Blue Eyes, White Dress, Excellent
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Presented is a wonderful example of mid-19th-century American Portraiture.
Portrait of a Girl, c. 1850s
Oil on Canvas
27" x 22"
Housed in its original period frame
Spandrel Sit...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Old Farm, Winter Landscape, Michigan Farm, Cardinals, Tire Swing
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Dee Milbocker (American, 20th Century)
Signed: Dee Milboker 1984 (Lower, Right)
" The Old Farm ", 1984
Oil on Canvas
18" x 24"
Housed in its original 1 1/2" Frame
Overall Size:...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman, Early American Portraiture, 1830s Portrait of a Man
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
John F Francis (American, 1808 - 1886)
" Portrait of a Gentleman ", 1838
Oil on Canvas
30" x 25"
Housed in a 3 1/2" Frame
Overall Size: 37" x 32"
...
Category
Early 19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monuments: Sunrise, 1950s Southwestern Desert Landscape Oil Painting, 24 x 30 in
By Harold Vincent Skene
Located in Denver, CO
'Monuments: Sunrise', original vintage 1950s oil painting of a southwestern desert landscape in early morning with rock formations, trees and brush with brilliant sky with clouds by ...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
New Hampshire Barn
Located in Wenham, MA
Linda Hefner is known for her vibrant acrylic paintings of historical New England barns and architecture. Hefner’s love of endangered Americana is rooted ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Rockefeller Limo Reflection
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Khawam’s first genre of paintings started in 1980 during the heights of the Superrealism movement in New York City where Khawam was the youngest among the group and in his first year...
Category
1980s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
George Frank Higgins, American born 1850 Landscape.
By George Frank Higgins
Located in Hallowell, ME
Now in a period frame, carved italian and gold leaf ask for images please In frame
Little is know about George Frank Higgins, but his work sugge...
Category
1880s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Boats at Dock', by C. Hjalmar Amundsen, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
C Hjalmar Amundsen's 'Boats at Dock' is a Mid-20th Century Oil on Canvas painting depicting a sailing vessel docked next to a couple of wharf buildings. The colors are rich values of...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Yellow Boat at Rocky Bay
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery -- Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Le Pot de Confiture
By Dale Zinkowski
Located in Wenham, MA
Le Pot de Confiture is an original oil painting on panel. It is framed in a handmade, black frame with gold lip. The overall dimensions of the framed piece are approximately, 14x16 inches.
Master Still Life painter Dale Zinkowski was born in New York and his earliest memories of painting and drawing were from his Grandfather's own work, which hung throughout the home. Fascinated by the world around him, and the ability to capture fleeting moments on paper, he began to draw and paint from nature almost exclusively.
From 1993-97, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he studied the Reilly method with both Marvin Mattelson and John F. Murray. Inspired by the techniques, and hungry for more information, he began copying from the old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When Murray moved his studio to Tucson, Arizona, Dale followed and focused his studies on the palettes, methods, and materials of artists such as Velazquez and Rembrandt.
In 2012, Dale attended the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he pushed his understanding of traditional techniques and materials even further while drawing and painting master copies in museums and painting landscapes in the countryside.
In 2013, Dale returned to New York City, where he immersed himself in the full-time program at Grand Central Atelier studying under Jacob Collins, Ted Minoff, Will St. John and Colleen Barry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Giant Magnolia Realism 36 x 36 Oil on Canvas Gallery Wrapped Floral
Located in Houston, TX
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Magenta Magnolia Realism 36 x 36 Oil Canvas Gallery Wrapped Floral Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Magnolia after the Rain Realism 24 x 36 Oil Canvas Floral Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Magnolia After the Rain is 24 x 36 oil on canvas . Gallery Wrapped
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Le Romaine
By Dale Zinkowski
Located in Wenham, MA
Le Romaine is an original oil painting on panel. It is framed in a water-gilded gold frame. The overall dimensions with the frame are approximately 10x14 inches.
Master Still Life painter Dale Zinkowski was born in New York and his earliest memories of painting and drawing were from his Grandfather's own work, which hung throughout the home. Fascinated by the world around him, and the ability to capture fleeting moments on paper, he began to draw and paint from nature almost exclusively.
From 1993-97, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he studied the Reilly method with both Marvin Mattelson and John F. Murray. Inspired by the techniques, and hungry for more information, he began copying from the old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
When Murray moved his studio to Tucson, Arizona, Dale followed and focused his studies on the palettes, methods, and materials of artists such as Velazquez and Rembrandt.
In 2012, Dale attended the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he pushed his understanding of traditional techniques and materials even further while drawing and painting master copies in museums and painting landscapes in the countryside.
In 2013, Dale returned to New York City, where he immersed himself in the full-time program at Grand Central Atelier studying under Jacob Collins, Ted Minoff, Will St. John and Colleen Barry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Close Up Magnolia in the Rain Realism 40 x 30 Oil Canvas Floral Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Close up of Magnolia after the Rain is 40 x 30.. Gallery Wrapped
Susan is a native Houstonian. She is passionate about oil painting, specializing in large scale florals. She was inspired to start painting florals when she began photographing flowers on her daily walks. Susan is an early childhood educator and teaches at a private school in Houston. She is a member of the Lassaulx studio in Houston, Texas.
Susan graduated from HCC with honors with a degree in Fine Arts. She studied at the Glassell School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Susan Meeks...
Category
2010s American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Boats Stowed for Winter
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery -- Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Siesta
By Kurt Solmssen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery -- Gary Faigin says of Kurt Solmssen’s work, “Though a realist, Kurt Solmssen does not so much record what he sees, as use his surroundings as a...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
An American Still Life of an Apple, Pear and Grapes circa 1880s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
An American Still Life of an Apple, Pear and Grapes
Oil on canvas on board
Signed illegibly
circa late 1800s
9 3/4 x 5 7/8 (16 x 12 3/4 frame) inches
This is an example of late 19...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait of Man in Trench Coat
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Portrait of Man in Trench Coat, 1950. Ink on paper, measuring 8 x 12 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Male Figure at Beach
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985).Male Figure at Beach, 1952.. Gouache on cardboard panel, 9 x 10 inches, 14.5 x 15.25 inches in maple frame. Signed, dated lower left.
Born in Newark, New...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Wearing Hat (portrait, western, cowboy, oil painting, vintage, shadow, dark)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting the mysterious portrait of a man in the shadow wearing a cowboy hat.
keywords; western, cowboy Hat, green coat, americana, surrealism, ...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Self Wearing Bag (leather, satchel, brown, oil painting, vintage, monochrome)
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
Superbe original painting on canvas depicting an Anonymous man holding a Brown leather satchel.
keywords; Brown leather, satchel, travel bag, americana, surrealism, vintage, oil pai...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sailing on the Hudson River" American Oil Painting on Board of Ships at Sea
By Kristina Nemethy
Located in New York, NY
A Fine depiction of a Sailing Ship in the Hudson River. For this wonderful depiction, Nemethy uses a Fine technique which depicts the figures on the boat in a miniature way. With joyful colors, this piece is bright and peaceful. This painting is signed by the artist lower left and it comes comes housed in a beautiful simple wood frame and ready to be displayed with hanging wire on verso.
This painting measures 8 x 14 inches
Framed measures 13 x 19 inches
PROVENANCE: Lilac Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Ocean Beach Fire Island Cubist Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Ocean Beach, Fire Island, NY, 1946. Ink on paper, measuring 9 x 12 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframed
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Paper
"Tully Lumber Mill, Orange, Massachusetts, " Dorothy Eaton, WPA Factory Rural
Located in New York, NY
Dorothy Eaton
Tully Lumber Mill, Orange, Massachusetts, 1935
Signed and dated lower right
Oil on canvas
17 1/2 x 23 1/2 inches
Dorothy Eaton was born in East Orange, New Jersey in 1893. She studied at Smith College...
Category
1930s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pleasure Beach Bridgeport CT Rollercoaster
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Pleasure Beach, Bridgeport, CT, 1936. Gouache on cardboard panel, 11.5 x 18 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Naughty Children" on Canvas by Harold Stephenson, Aka Abruzzi
By Harold Stephenson
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting features two children with big brown eyes peeking behind red-slatted shutters. The innocence on their faces contrasts with some sense of embarrassment, like if they had...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life with Fruit, ' by Cletus Smith, Watercolor Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This framed 21.5" x 17.25" watercolor on paper painting, 'Still Life with Fruit,' is by Oklahoma artist Cletus Smith. The subject matter include a brown b...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Bison in Snow, Animal Picture, American School, John Aldrich Ruthven, signed
By John Ruthven
Located in Greven, DE
John Aldrich Ruthven
American Painter
Bison in a Snow Blizzard
Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
signed lower left
Category
20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Watercolor
"Shoes" - Late 20th Century City Figure Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
In addition to having his work in museums and fine corporate collections, Alabama artist Donny Finley showed for years at prestigious Bryant Galleries on ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hyperrealistic Portrait of a Woman with Chain Link Fence
Located in Houston, TX
Green-toned hyperrealistic figurative painting by Texas artist Kevin Peterson. The painting depicts a woman in a white dress sitting by a lush green sce...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Two Koi
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic and colorful painting of two Koi. Circa 2000. Signed lower right corner "Linda H." Presented in white painted frame. Image size: 18"H x 36"W.
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Portrait of Wine Enologist Claude Wolf
By Abel Warshawsky
Located in Soquel, CA
Wine Enologist Claude Wolf - Mid Century Portrait
A stately mid-century portrait of Claude Wolf (1904-1973), a vintner Enologist by Abel George Warshawsky...
Category
1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Afternoon Sun, " Ann Wyeth McCoy, Interior and Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Ann Wyeth McCoy (1915 - 2005)
Afternoon Sun
Watercolor on paper
Sheet 24 x 18 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Somerville Manning Gallery
Private ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Rowing to Shore - Nautical Seascape in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Noble nautical scene of a small rowboat coming to shore from a larger sailing vessel by George A. Robbins (American, 1918-2010). In the foreground, sever...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled
Located in Napoli, IT
Untitled, Scissione , oil Thinner and ink on canvas
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the ag...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Oil
Green Dario Agrimi Hyperrealism Children Walking
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia.
In his s...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Woman Listening, " Honore Sharrer, Magical Realism Landscape with Flora & Figure
By Honore Sharrer
Located in New York, NY
Honore Sharrer (1920 - 2009)
Woman Listening
Signed lower right
Caseine on paper
15 x 20 inches
Provenance:
Forum Gallery, New York
Private Collection
...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Casein
Verde
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia.
In his s...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Frank Lloyd Wright, Sturges House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Verde
Located in Napoli, IT
Eclectic artist, born in Atri in Abruzzo in 1980, he works in the field of contemporary art with conceptual creations from the age of 18 years. He currently lives in Puglia.
In his s...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Portrait of a Lady, Oil on Canvas, 1840's, In Style of Jacob Eichholtz
Located in Doylestown, PA
This interior portrait of a woman dressed in an elegant lace shawl is a 30" x 25" oil on canvas painting in the style of Jacob Eichholtz. The artist is unknown but the painting is believed to have been painted in the 1840's. It is not signed but framed and in good condition. Provenance: Private Collection, Old Queens Gallery...
Category
Mid-19th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Child in an American Landscape" James Gantt, Midwestern Regionalism, Missouri
Located in New York, NY
James Britton Gantt (1911 - 1984)
Child in an American Landscape, 1940
Egg tempera on board
17 1/2 x 14 inches
Signed and dated lower right
Provenance:
Private Collection, San Francisco
Regarding this painting, the artist's daughter said, "The subject matter of your painting reflects my father's propensity for presenting minority figures with dignity, as well as an admiration for the contributions of hard-working people. The painting's background packs in details reminiscent of the technique he used working on mural projects."
Painter, printmaker, muralist. Born in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas (some sources wrongly indicate Kansas City), the son of Euphemia Lane Fox Blackburn (1883 – 1929) and Charles Whittle Gantt (1881 – 1952). He was the grandson and namesake of Judge James Britton Grant (1845 – 1912), a former Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri. His father, Charles, though trained as a lawyer, suffered from alcoholism and instead worked for the railroad.
James Gantt...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Narrative figurative landscape of a relaxing afternoon in Hyde Park, London
By Kathryn Freeman
Located in Charleston, US
Magical outdoor realism in a grand scale is a fascinating conversation piece for an important indoor space. Kathryn Freeman, American, was living in ...
Category
1980s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Midnight Swim
By Patricia Chidlaw
Located in Fairfield, CT
"When asked what kind of paintings I make, I usually call my work "Urban Landscapes" to distinguish them as paintings about areas of human habitation rather than landscapes that re...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Low Tide at Noon, Wellfleet, Massachusetts, " Ernest Fiene, WPA, Boat on Beach
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
Ernest Fiene (1894 - 1965)
Low Tide at Noon, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
26 x 36 inches
Signed lower right
Ernest Fiene was born in Elberfeld, Germany in 1894. As a teenager, Fiene immigrated to the United States in 1912. He studied art at the National Academy of Design in New York City from 1914 to 1918, taking day classes with Thomas Maynard and evening classes with Leon Kroll. Fiene continued his studies at the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in Paris from 1916 to 1918, adding classes in printmaking at the Art Students League in 1923.
Fiene began his career as an artist in 1919 with his first exhibition of watercolors at the MacDowell Club arranged by his mentor Robert Henri. In 1923 the Whitney Studio Club mounted a large exhibition of his works. The following year he had an exhibition at the New Gallery in New York, which completely sold out all fifty-two works, including paintings, watercolors, drawings, and etchings. With the proceeds of sales from the New Gallery exhibition, Ernest Fiene and his younger brother Paul, a sculptor, built studios in Woodstock, New York in 1925.
In the early Twenties Ernest Fiene painted mostly landscapes of Woodstock and both the Ramapo and Hudson River Valleys. He was the subject of the first monograph for the Younger Artists Series in 1922. Published in Woodstock, the series went on to include Alexander Brook, Peggy Bacon, and Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The book reproduced 1 illustration in color and another 27 reproductions in black and white. Around 1925 Fiene became fascinated with the intensity, excitement, and opportunities for color harmonies New York City offered as a subject. His paintings shifted to urban and industrial themes with architecture, industry, and transportation becoming his subjects.
By 1926 Fiene had attracted the dealer Frank K.M. Rehn, who gave him a one-man exhibition that year, which travelled to the Boston Arts Club. C.W. Kraushaar Galleries gave Fiene a one-man exhibition of urban, landscape, portrait, and still life paintings in 1927. Julianna Force, the director of the Whitney Studio Club and first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, included two of Fiene's paintings in a fall exhibition in 1928. The Whitney Studio Club showed Fiene's paintings in a two-man exhibition with Glenn O. Coleman that year and acquired three of Fiene's paintings. Also in 1928 Fiene became affiliated with Edith Halpert's Downtown Gallery where he had an exhibition of 20 lithographs in the spring. Fiene sold his house in Woodstock in 1928 to spend more of his time in New York City.
With so many successful exhibitions, Fiene returned to Paris in 1928-29 where he rented Jules Pascin's studio and studied at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In France, Fiene painted both landscape and urban subjects developed from ideas influenced by Cubist geometry and the use of flat areas of broad color. Upon returning to New York in 1930, Fiene used this new approach to continue to paint New York skyscraper and waterfront subjects, as well as to begin a series of paintings on changing old New York based on the excavations for Radio City Music Hall and the construction of the Empire State Building. Frank K.M. Rehn Galleries exhibited this series, titled "Changing Old New York," in 1931. Fiene also has solo exhibitions at Rehn Galleries in 1930 and 1932. Fiene's oil paintings are exhibited at the Chicago Arts Club in 1930 as well.
Fiene was included in the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans in December of 1931. Visiting New York, Henri Matisse saw the exhibition and called Fiene's Razing Buildings, West 49th Street the finest painting he had seen in New York. Fiene had two mural studies from his Mechanical Progress series exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art's exhibition Murals by American Painters and Photographers in 1932. Fiene sent View from my Window which depicts Fiene working on a lithograph stone while looking out his window to the newly completed Empire State Building to the Carnegie International in 1931. In 1932 Fiene participated in the first Biennial of American Painting at the Whitney Museum and his prints were included in exhibitions at the Downtown Gallery and the Wehye Gallery. In the same year, Fiene was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship to further study mural painting in Florence, Italy.
On his return from Italy in 1933 Fiene re-engaged himself in New York City life and won several public and private mural projects. Fiene resumed his active exhibition schedule, participating in two group exhibitions at the Whitney Museum and a one-man exhibition of recent paintings at the Downtown Gallery in January 1934. In 1933 he purchased a farm in Southbury, Connecticut, which added Connecticut scenes to his landscape subjects. This was also the year Fiene began to spend summers on Monhegan Island, Maine, where he painted seascapes, harbor scenes, and still lifes.
Fiene's landscape paintings attracted numerous commissions as part of the American Scene movement. From 1935-36 Fiene took an extended sketching trip through the urban, industrial, and farming areas of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Most of the twenty-four Pennsylvania urban and rural paintings from this trip were featured in an exhibition held at the First National Bank in Pittsburgh in October of 1937 by the Pittsburgh Commission for Industrial Expansion. Fiene said of these works that he formed rhythm, opportunity for space and color, and integrity in the Pennsylvania mill and furnace paintings. Fiene received the silver medal for one of the Pittsburgh paintings...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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By Leon Kroll
Located in New York, NY
Leon Kroll (1884 - 1974)
Portrait of a Woman, circa 1950
Oil on canvas
20 3/4 x 17 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, New York
Private Collection, North Caroli...
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1950s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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By Anthony Ackrill
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Opera Matinee, 1940s Portrait of Two Women in Colorful Hats, Brown, Pink, Green
Located in Denver, CO
Oil on panel painting by Lewis Lee Tilley (1921-2005) titled "Opera Matinee" from 1948. Image presents two women at an opera, one in pink leans over to the other in blue to whisper i...
Category
1940s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Rhythm of Wings
By Grant Hacking
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel, signed lower left.
New England artist Grant Hacking was born and raised in South Africa and resided there until the age of twenty-five so he still experiences great pl...
Category
2010s American Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
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By Stephen Wright
Located in Fairfield, CT
Water does not have a form; it adapts to forms created by energy. There is something kind of futile yet exciting about capturing the effect of water in a painting. There is no start...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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