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Realist Art

REALIST STYLE

Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world. 

Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history. 

By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.

Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.

Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.

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Style: Realist
Interior scene Oil on canvas, 40.5x67 cm
By Allesandro Sani
Located in Riga, LV
Interior scene Oil on canvas, 40,5x67 cm "Interior Scene" is an oil painting on canvas that depicts a late 19th-century kitchen setting. Through its portrayal of the interior space, figures, and attention to detail, the artwork offers viewers a glimpse into domestic life during that time period, capturing the essence and atmosphere of a bygone era. Alessandro Sani...
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Late 19th Century Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Richard Bankes Harraden: St John's College, Oxford oil painting
Located in London, GB
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1830s Realist Art

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Board, Oil

Graffiti Sneaker Stiletto
By Klau
Located in New York, NY
Graffiti Sneaker Stiletto. Printing process makes piece appear 3 dimensional.
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

PEBBLE BEACH, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
A gallery wrapped oval canvas, the painted image extends around the perimeter of the painting avoiding the need for any framing. Supplied ready to hang with advice on hanging options...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

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Oil

"Passive Sacrifice, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Che Leviathan (US based) "Passive Sacrifice" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white horse in profile, with thick white mane, bowing i...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Sailing on the Open Seas" Realist Oil Painting on Board of Sailboat in Open Sea
Located in New York, NY
George Nemethy finds his inspiration in moments of quiet and solitude. Where he finds himself one with the sea and the sky and the tranquil world which he freely escapes to. Trained from an early age by his father Albert Nemethy, a world-renowned painter known best for his large scale steamer boats, George found...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Board, Oil

Wife portrait.Oil on cardboard, 110, 5x72, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Wife portrait. Oil on cardboard, 110,5x72,5 cm Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I) His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine and...
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1970s Realist Art

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Oil, Cardboard

Three Graces. 1996, oil on wood, 32x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Three Graces. 1996, oil on wood, 32x23 cm Three women, small painting Normunds Braslinsh (1962) Born 1962 in Riga, Latvia 1980–1986 Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department 1973...
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1990s Realist Art

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Wood, Oil

"Metempsychosis: Ginger Snapped, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Pamela Wilson's (US based) "Metempsychosis: Ginger Snapped" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a topless female model with a Baboon head. This is a secondary market...
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2010s Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Limehouse
Located in New York, NY
James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), Limehouse, etching, 1859. References: Glasgow 48, fifth state (of 6), Kennedy 40, third state (of 3), signed with the butterfly in pencil in the lower margin. [Also signed and dated in the plate.]With margins, 5 x 7 7/8 inches, the sheet 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Published as no. 12 in A Series of Sixteen Etchings of Scenes on the Thames and Other Subjects, otherwise known as the Thames Set. In good condition apart from a soft diagonal fold in the sky. A very fine impression, in black ink on a thin Japan paper. Provenance: Dr. John W. Randall (cf. Lugt 2130), without his mark, annotated on the mat. Limehouse, the entrance to the West Indies Docks, lies opposite the Surrey Commercial Docks in Rotherhithe, along the lower Thames. It’s unusual to find the signed butterfly (or any pencil signature) on the early London etchings, but it is known that Whistler signed...
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1850s Realist Art

Materials

Etching

Arrival or Departure Photographic Series (After Hitchcock)
Located in Soquel, CA
A series of five photographs by Betty Hahn titled, "Arrival or Departure (After Hitchcock), 1987, a series of five gelatin silver photographs" 17" by 24 each". A copy of the book included "Betty Hahn by Steve Yates. Gelatin silver photographic prints on paper mounted on foam board. Each has a sticker "BHC" with the letter indicating the print sequence "A-E". Following excerpt from the book "Betty Hahn "Photography Or Maybe Not" by Steve Yates, from the essay by Dana Asbury: "Instead of crime fiction and forensic photograph, the first filmic sequences have a moody raking light of film noir in the forties, and she titles Arrival or Departure (After Hitchcock) (plate 117). This series of 5 photographs (1987) shows the back of a man, unidentified, at a deserted train station, in late afternoon light. The rest is ambiguous. Is he coming or going? Is he moving away from him? Is there significance to the first close-up shot of a black duffel bag stuffed under his arm? It was of course Hitchcock's particular genius to explore the ominousness of everyday situations, and to show us that looking to long at anything makes it look suspicious. This series pays homage to Hitchcock's use of the tracking shot that conveys his terrifying message behind "Teddy Bear", that there is serious threat in ordinary objects. This series also fits in with the mood of "Appearance, Ehrlichman Surveillance", and many of the crime series-solitary male figure in an urban setting. There is a tough edge to these works." Unsigned, gallery receipt of purchase copy included with notation on verso . 5 framed images. Each image, 16.5"H x 23.5"L. The following biography is by Fumiko Koizumi at: The Visual Studies Workshop in association with the State University of New York at Brockport Betty Hahn was born Elizabeth Jean Okon on October 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1967, Betty Hahn moved to Rochester to pursue a job at Kodak or Xerox. While in Rochester, she participated in Nathan Lyons's Visual Studies Workshop from 1967 to 1968. Lyons lectured on "vernacular" and "snap shot" photography to workshop students, reinforcing Betty's interest in this "folk" tradition. During her time at the VSW she met Tom Barrow, Roger Mertin, and Alice Wells, and reconnected with Robert Fichter. She was encouraged by how their work was challenging the rules of what was common in fine-print photography. At age 10, her aunt Marcella Brown gave Betty her first camera, a Brownie #2. At this same time the Okon family moved to Indianapolis, Indiana. After graduating from Scecina Memorial Catholic High School in Indianapolis, she entered Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She earned a four-year scholarship and studied fine arts. While she was experimenting with photographic image making her initial artistic experiences involved painting and drawing. She did not take photography seriously as a medium for her artistic expression during her undergraduate work. At age 23, Hahn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and continued at Indiana University for graduate studies in the department of photography. At the suggestion of Henry Holmes Smith...
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1980s Realist Art

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper

Untitled (Lower West Side)
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original gelatin silver print by American social documentary photographer Milton Rogovin depicting a resident of Buffalo's East Side in the early 1960's. This work is hand signed ...
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1970s Realist Art

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Silver Gelatin

Notre-Dame de Paris. Oil on canvas, 65x54 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Notre-Dame de Paris. Oil on canvas, 65x54 cm Max Band (1901-1974) Max Band was born in Lithuania in 1900. He was drawing and painting from a young age, copying the works of great m...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Large Fine Bronze Sculpture of Mercury and Original Marble Pedestal
Located in Rochester, NY
Fine Grand Tour bronze sculpture of mercury flying on the wind after Giambologna. Polished rouge marble and bronze attached base. Green marble pedestal. Inscribed Jean de Bologne...
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Mid-19th Century Realist Art

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Marble, Bronze

Nymph Lake, Rocky Mountain Park, CO, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Nymph Lake, Rocky Mountain Park, CO" by David Shingler (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil

St John’s College, Cambridge watercolour by James Bolivar Manson
By James Bolivar Manson
Located in London, GB
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20th Century Realist Art

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Watercolor

Coral Garden (Ocean)- oil on canvas, made in white, blue colors
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
The artwork show the incredible beauty of coral reefs, strives to increase the awareness of the fragility of the underwater world and prevent coral bleaching happening due to climate change. Nikolina Kovalenko received her MFA from Moscow Surikov Art Institute in 2011 and studied at Universität der Künste Berlin. She holds a Gold Medal from the Russian Art Academy. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Nikolina is interested in humanity’s philosophical connection with Nature and strives to expose the consequences our everyday actions have on the environment. Her work explores the symbolism of textures found in Nature, magnifying the mundane and transforming it into the sublime. Kovalenko works with fragile ecosystems creating artwork inspired by locations specific to each project. Her subjects range from global warming, deforestation and coral bleaching, to processing and interpreting visual landscape and cultural associations. Her exhibition history includes an exhibition at The Russian Museum (Saint Peterburg, Russia), solo shows at Gitana Rosa Gallery and Dacia Gallery. The group shows include Cheryl Hazan Contemporary, Mayson Gallery, Select Art Fair, 212 Arts...
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2010s Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Moeris and Galatea" Eclogue 9 original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Company. Samuel Palmer had planned a series of etchings to illustrate his translation of Virgil's Eclogues, but died in 1881 before finishing the project. Moeris and Galatea is one of four etchings...
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1880s Realist Art

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Etching

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1990s Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"L'Hiver a Paris" original etching on japon paper
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching and drypoint with aquatint and roulette. This is an exquisite impression on japon paper, of what is arguably the most famous Felix Buhot...
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1880s Realist Art

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Etching

'Psychopathic Ward' — American Socially-Conscious Realism, 1940s
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Robert Riggs, 'Psychopathic Ward', 2-color lithograph, c. 1940, edition c. 50, Beall 60, Bassham 78. Signed, titled, and numbered '14' in pencil. Signed in the stone, lower right. A ...
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1940s Realist Art

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Lithograph

"The Cypress Grove" Eclogue 5 original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Company. Samuel Palmer had planned a series of etchings to illustrate his translation of Virgil's Eclogues, but died in 1881 before finishing the project. The Cypress Grove is one of four etchings...
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1880s Realist Art

Materials

Etching

TAA Trans-Australia Airlines original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original TAA Trans Australia Airlines vintage travel poster. Linen-backed and ready to frame. TAA Airlines was started in 1946 and was renamed Australian Airlines in 1986. In 1...
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20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Offset

A Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture, "Just A Minute"
Located in San Diego, CA
A one of a kind 15x15x9 Figurative Impressionist Bronze Metal Sculpture. A certificate of authenticity will be provided upon its purchase or delivery. Manuelita Brown is a San Dieg...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Bronze

Crash of Rhino's, Animal Art, Safari Painting, Contemporary Realist Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Family of Rhino's in their natural habitat. I used three separate photographs to construct the final image, and is painted in water-colour and acrylic mixed paint on Bockingford paper. David Truman artist offers original paintings and limited edition prints exclusively with Wychwood Art. David Truman is based in Lincolnshire and David comments " I became a full time artist in 2009, following a career path of many of the disciplines of Graphic Design working for Advertising Agencies and Art studio’s. I specialise in bringing my subjects to life using watercolour and acrylic mix paintings and also graphite drawings. As far as I can remember, I have always shown an interest in Art, and Art works, and encouraged at an early age by an Uncle, who was an excellent Equine Artist, it seemed a high possibility that I too would become an artist. I attended Lincoln College...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic, Watercolor

Baboon's butt - Contemporary Portrait Oil Painting, Realistic
Located in Warsaw, PL
Janusz Szpyt was born in 1960, he is a Polish painter. He graduated from the Graphic design faculty and painting from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. 1983 onward, he became the m...
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2010s Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Pierre's Winter Salad and Amaryllis, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Pierre's Winter Salad and Amaryllis Mixed Media Painting 60 x 48 inches Artist's Commentary: "This is a great salad recipe including grapefruit, avocado and peppermint. My kitty...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

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Canvas

High Kickin' Paint
Located in Denver, CO
Bucking horse with Rider
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

St John’s College, Oxford Canterbury Quad drawing by Bryan de Grineau
Located in London, GB
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1950s Realist Art

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Pencil

Colorful Flowers Growing out of Grey Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
Robin Hextrum's "Colorful Flowers Growing out of Grey Mountains" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts flowers and fruit in front of a mountainous landscape.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

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Linen, Oil

A good gossip, oil on canvas, 61x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A good gossip, oil on canvas, 61x92 cm "A Good Gossip" is an oil painting on canvas that depicts a figurative composition of women engaged in conversation in a natural setting. Thr...
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Late 19th Century Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Brother Ron's Southern Peanut Butter Soup, Original Painting
Located in Boston, MA
Brother Ron's Southern Peanut Butter Soup Mixed Media Painting 60 x 48 inches Artist's Commentary: "This is a recipe from a wonderful gourmet vegan chef named Ron Pickarski, who ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Acrylic

John Piper CH, Shadwell Park Screenprint 1977 Modern British Art
Located in London, GB
To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. John Piper C.H. (BRITISH, 1903-1992) Shadwell Park (from the 'Victorian Dream...
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1970s Realist Art

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Screen

Tapestry
Located in Denver, CO
"Tapestry," is an original oil painting by Tenaya Sims. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Chico Basin, San Luis Valley, Colorado, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Chico Basin, San Luis Valley, Colorado" by David Shingler (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, but ready to hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

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Oil

Mana
Located in Denver, CO
"Mana," is an original oil painting by Tenaya Sims. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Linen

Discover – Original Painting on Canvas, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One-of-a-kind Pop Art Original Painting on Canvas by Gardani, hand signed by the Artist front and back, comes with official Gardani Certificate of Authenticity with a unique dollar b...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"The Mooring of Scarlet, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Pamela Wilson's (US based) "The Mooring of Scarlet" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a pregnant model with a boat on top of her head. This...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude in the Window, Oil Painting by Sandu Liberman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Sandu Liberman Title: Nude in the Window Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 24 in. x 24 in. (60.96 cm x 60.96 cm) Frame: 31 x 31 inches
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1970s Realist Art

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Oil

Drury Lane
Located in New York, NY
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), DRURY LANE, etching, 1880-81, signed with the butterfly and inscribed imp in pencil [also with the butterfly upper right in the plate], on...
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Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Etching

"Regroup" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Raymond Bonilla's "Regroup" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a city scene where many strangers are gathered , waiting on public transit together. About the Artist: Raymond Bonilla is a nationally recognized illustrator and fine artist in Buffalo, NY. Raymond graduated from the State University in New York at Fredonia in 2005 with a degree in New Media and Illustration. He continued his studies at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco where he completed his Masters of Fine Art in 2009. He was awarded Best in Show in the Great Lakes Emerging Artist Competition, was a finalist in the Artists Magazine Annual Art Competition, has been awarded Gold Medals in advertising from both Society of Illustrators of New York and Los Angeles, and juried into the Communication Arts Illustration Annual. He currently lives in Buffalo, New York where he spends his time painting and teaching part-time at SmART School and Visual Arts Passage. He is represented by Principle Gallery in Alexandria,VA, Abend Gallery...
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2010s Realist Art

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Oil, Panel

Fishing Village, Puttaya, Thailand
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fishing Village, Puttaya, Thailand" c.1980 is an oil painting with gold addition on canvas by renown Thai artist Kid Kosolawat, 1917...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

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Oil

Fight with Inner Demons. 2018, author technique on canvas, 100x100cm
Located in Riga, LV
Fight with Inner Demons. 2018, author technique, 100x100cm Agate Apkalne. Born in Riga, 1977 Education: 2005 – MA in arts, Art Academy of Latvia 1998 ...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media

Edward Bawden Mum Cat With Nine Lives pen and ink Modern British Art drawing
Located in London, GB
From a series of Bawden Cat illustrations we have listed. To see the others and our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" a...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Ink, Pen

Summer Approaching, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This original artwork is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. - All of my works are hand-painted by me, using the best professional grade oil paints made by Blockx ( ) a...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

A savior with a nuclear bomb, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Roman Rembovsky is a Slovakian painter whose work is held in private collections worldwide. Rembovsky situates his works as a dialogue between the past and the present. His paintings...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil

"Enkulette, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Che Leviathan (US based) "Enkulette" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a white horse, with thick white mane, looking behind and over its...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

Ooze 1
Located in Nashville, TN
"Ooze 1" by Denise Stewart-Sanabria is part of Donuts Behaving Badly, a subseries within the artist's widely successful ongoing series Edible Dramas. This group of large-scale oil-on...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil, Canvas, Linen

Pocket Very Ripe Strawberry, Original Painting, Baroque still life, Fruit, Food
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Very Ripe Strawberry is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cedaring V
Located in Zürich, ZH
Angela Lyn was born in Windsor, England in 1955 to a Chinese father and an English mother. In 1968 her family emigrated to the USA. In 1972 she traveled to Taiwan to explore her Asi...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fang Fang -- The Artist's Daughter Portrait
By Zhang Biao
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptional aquatint etching on paper by master print maker Zhang Biao. His daughter Fang Fang was published on a full page in the official catalog of the exhibition. This print rece...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Aquatint, Archival Paper

"You and I", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert ( US based) "You and I" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a couple leaning in to kiss each other as they are cast in the glow of a red light. Artist b...
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2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Cupid Sleeping - 18th Century British watercolour by Richard Westall RA
Located in London, GB
RICHARD WESTALL, RA (1765-1836) Cupid Sleeping; from a poem of Mrs Robinson - The Duchess of Devonshire Discovers the Sleeping Cupid Watercolour on paper, oval 36 by 44.5 cm., 14 ¼ by 18 in. (frame size 55 by 66 cm., 21 ¾ by 26 in.) Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, 1792, no.448. Richard Westall was bon in Reepham, near Norwich. Initially apprenticed to a London silver engraving he began studying at the Royal Academy Schools from 1785 and exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1784 and 1836. Westall became an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1792 and a full member in 1794. Westall painted in both oil and watercolour, his works being romantic and neoclassical in style. He contributing to both Boydell’s Shakespeare Gallery and Fuseli’s Milton Gallery and was also a prolific book illustrator of both fiction and poetry including works by Sir Walter Scott and Byron, whose portrait he also painted. For a time he was also art master to the young Princess Victoria. This is probably Westall’s 1792 Royal Academy exhibit (no.448). The subject was inspired by the poem Cupid Sleeping by the poetess-actress Mary Darby Robinson, which had been published in the previous year. The poem was dedicated to Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and the picture show the Duchess discovering the sleeping cupid who she then relieves of his bow and arrows. Mrs Robinson was not only the Duchess’s protégée but also the first public mistress of the Prince of Wales. William Nutter’s engraving of Westall’s picture was also dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire. Close in a woodbine's tangled shade, The blooming god asleep was laid; His brows with mossy roses crown'd; His golden darts lay scatter'd round; To shade his auburn, curled head, A purple canopy was spread, Which gently with the breezes play'd, And shed around a soften'd shade. Upon his downy smiling cheek, Adorned with many a "dimple sleek," Beam'd glowing health and tender blisses, His coral lip...
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1790s Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Cane Corso Dog Bust, Patinated Bronze Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
The Cane Corso is an Italian breed of dog, for years valued highly in Italy as a companion, guardian and hunter. This bronze bust is a loveable, lifelike r...
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Late 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Bronze

"Opening the Fold - Early Morning" Eclogue 8 original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. This impression on Alton Mill laid paper was printed in 1883 for "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" and published in London by Seeley and Company. Samuel Palmer had planned a series of etchings...
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1880s Realist Art

Materials

Etching

Embers
Located in Denver, CO
"Embers," is an original oil painting by Tenaya Sims. It is framed and ready-to-hang.
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cyril Farey 1914 Architectural Perspective Design Drawing Berners Street London
Located in London, GB
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1910s Realist Art

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Watercolor

Oval plate. Returning from a Bear Hunt. 19th Century. Porcelain, 4, 5x39, 5x26 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Oval plate. Returning from a Bear Hunt. 19th Century. Porcelain, 4,5x39,5x26 cm
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19th Century Realist Art

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Porcelain

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