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Style: American Realist
Rooster, contemporary realist gouache on paper animal miniature
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky is a contemporary realist miniaturist painter and curator known for her detailed drawings of animals, architecture, and trees. Her miniatures carry with them the traditi...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Dina Brodsky, Bluebird, realist animal watercolor on paper, 2019
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Dina Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. The rich royal blue reflects in a dreamy glow off the bird's perch. Each carefully defined f...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Two Penguins, contemporary realist animal watercolor on paper
By Dina Brodsky
Located in New York, NY
Brodsky pairs gouache and watercolor to achieve the luster of her subject's plumage. Each carefully defined feather shimmers with a prism of color. Her attention to detail is enliven...
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2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Silvery Lupin, 2025
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Intermission, 2025
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
172, 2025
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Dweller, 2025
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Petite Treat, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"My wife has been baking pecan pies for the holiday season," shares artist Dwight Smith," which inspired me to paint the still life. I love the warm colors of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mending, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A culinary-themed still life featuring a Honeycrisp apple and sewing thimbles. "The beautiful profession of farming requires many hours of pruning or mending ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Whimbrel #11 Speaking Out, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This whimbrel was trying to tell me something as he was leaving. Whimbrels don't talk a lot, so this image is amusingly unusual. He's painted in browns and gr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Final Light on the Mountain, Original Painting
By Jill Poyerd
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I really enjoy combining realism with very impressionistic, almost abstract brushwork. The areas of this painting that are loosely interpreted are meant to e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Fresh Air, Original Painting
By Dwight Smith
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
"An original watercolor that gives homage to a time when grandma or mom baked desserts and cooled them by fresh air," says Dwight. "The windowsill in this pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Unconscious 3
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dramatic imagery from FILM NOIR series of black and white monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism
About Tom Bennett:
With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett crea...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Cat Nap - Study for "Anticipation"
By Will Barnet
Located in Miami, FL
Cat Nap on the steps captured by realist painter Will Barnet. This is more than just a preliminary study; it's polished and precise, which allows it to stand on its own. In person, i...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century WPA Era Woman Artist Children
Located in New York, NY
American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century WPA Era Woman Artist Children
Winnie Borne Sherman (1902-2004)
“Ring around the Rosie”
Pencil on Paperboard, c. 1930s
13 3/8 H x 15 5...
Category
1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Board
168
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement:
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish under desolate circumstances. The s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
150
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flouris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Pink Begonias - Floral Study in Watercolor on Heavy Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor of pink begonias by Barbara Gibson (20th Century). A large tuberous begonia is potted in a green pot. There are several large blossoms, and a few ...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
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David Dewey Watercolor of Reader
s Digest Headquarters
By David Dewey
Located in New York, NY
David Dewey (B. 1946)
Reader's Digest Headquarters, 1996
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 24 x 18 1/2 in.
Framed: 36 x 29 3/4 x 1 in.
Living on the Maine coast, David Dewey is a watercolo...
Category
1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Behind the Pines
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement:
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flourish under desolate circumstances. The s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Lavender Roses - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of lavender roses, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Yellow Roses - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor, pen and ink floral study of yellow roses in full bloom, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (Amer...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Gladiolas - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink gladiolas, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Deborah Eddy (American,...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Cyclamen - Botanical Study
By Deborah Eddy
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate watercolor, pen and ink floral study of a cyclamen blending into line drawing, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California artist Debora...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Mid Century Autumn Harvest Watercolor Still-Life with Gourds
Purple Corn
Located in Soquel, CA
Exceptionally detailed mid century watercolor still-life depicting an autumn harvest, with bumpy gourds spilling out of a basket, several ears of deep purple corn, and a fringed blan...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Bowers
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards
2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club
2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Pelargonium #3, Floral, Richard de Bas paper, realism, botanical
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor on handmade Richard de Bas "fleurs" paper
Agnes Murray has an extensive exhibition history and she is represented in both private and public collections.
Ms. Murray is a p...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Sunburst
Located in Pine Plains, NY
Formally trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Cockrill is well know and respected for his use of
the watercolor medium. Watercolor lends itself to melting, fluid brush stroke...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
139
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flouris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Aproaching Slains Castle, #10, monochromatic black and white architectura castle
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unique, monoprint
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper
Vintage Rose Illustration -- "Georgia On My Mind"
By Ben Black
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Rose Illustration -- "Georgia On My Mind"
Beautiful and highly detailed illustration of a pink rose on a complex matrix background by Ben Black (American, 1922-2003). Titled "Georgia on My Mind" lower left. Signed "Ben Black" lower right. Unframed. Image size, 22.5"H x 18.25"W on a 25"H x 20"W Mat.
The artist takes many days creating the hand drawn matrix background of circles and line. Ben Black was born in Boston, he graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art 1947. He served in World War 2. He was an art director at one of Boston's leading advertising firms, later opened his own studio where his works were included in The New Yorker Magazine, Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, establishing himself as a leading American Illustrator. He had many solo and group exhibitions throughout New England and his work is collected throughout the world. Originally known for his clowns, he created a limited edition series of plates for Royal Daulton as well as clown figurines...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, India Ink, Watercolor
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Coral Reef Painting Life Mag Published 1953. Mid Century Modern American Scene
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994)
The World We Live In
Coral Reef
...
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1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1955 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Located in New York, NY
Original Painting Life Mag Published 1953 Birds Animals Illustration Mid Century
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
The World We Live In
Birds of Paradise
Life Magazine Illustration ...
Category
1950s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Scapegoat
Located in Columbia, MO
Sean Lyman is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Missouri State University, with an extensive list of international exhibitions and work in public permanent collections including...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite, Wood Panel
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3
Located in New York, NY
TOBACCO ROAD Mid 20th Century Realism 1940 Drawing from the Novel WPA Literary 3
10 1/2 x 6 (sight), Signed David Fredenthal lower right. Framed by Lowy.
Offered here is one of several original drawings by WPA artist David Fredenthal that were first published in the 1940 illustrated edition of the novel TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell.
Background on the Drawing
Erskine Caldwell remarked, on seeing the work of David Fredenthal, 26-year-old painter: "That boy could draw my Tobacco Road people." A casual comment, it was enormously productive.
The young painter was just finishing a two-year Guggenhcim Fellowship, preceded by a year's study in Paris, two one-man shows at New York's Downtown Gallery, and a fellowship at the Cranbrook Academy near Detroit. He was out in Colorado Springs when he heard what Caldwell had said about him.
Fredenthal hadn't read Tobacco Road. He had not even seen the play - now breaking all records in its seventh year on Broadway. But he swapped a portrait for a second-hand Ford and headed East.
In New York he learned that Dnell, Sloan & Pearce were bringing out a deluxe edition of Tobacco Road. But he had no entrée to the publishers, and Caldwell, to his disappointment, was out of town. So he drove on to Georgia to have a look at the Tobacco Road people.
He found Dr. I. C. Caldwell, the author's father, in Wrens, Ga., going on his ministerial rounds among people like the Lesters. Fredenthal got a room from a couple who ran a 1-pump filling station...
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1930s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Two Cups and a Book
By Russ Havard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --RUSS HAVARD
Artist Statement:
I'm drawn towards nature imagery that depicts isolated elements in their continual struggle to flouris...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Reanimator
Located in Columbia, MO
Sean Lyman is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Missouri State University, with an extensive list of international exhibitions and work in public permanent collections including...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite, Watercolor
The Modernist
Located in Pine Plains, NY
I’m telling stories. And the story and iconography support a framework that says – growing up in middle-class America. We lived this way. In a world of sentimental family portraits d...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Two Men in Sombreros - I, Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Two Men in Sombreros - I, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Mosko...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Man in Sombrero - I, American Realist Ink on Paper by Ira Moskowitz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Man in Sombrero - I, Year: circa 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Ira Mos...
Category
1980s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Woodshed Spencer Pond Camps, a Black and White Drawing of a Wood Pile in Forest
By Alan Bray
Located in New York, NY
This original graphite drawing by Alan Bray captures a meticulously stacked woodshed in a tranquil forest setting. With fine detail and precision, Bray’s work evokes the quiet beauty...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
Al Hirschfeld "Art Week" NYC illustration New York Times poster design 1940
Located in New York, NY
Poster design for National Art Week, November, 1940. In collaboration the Al Hirschfeld Foundation
Al Hirschfeld’s drawings stand as one of the most innovative efforts in establishi...
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1940s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Mansard Roof
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Awards
2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club
2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Self Portrait
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Value Study of Woman
s Head in Profile
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
Nude and Interior No. 1
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
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20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
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Graphite
Veteran
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic
Portrait of Woman in Floral
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Study of Model
s Head
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Graphite
Seated Nude
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
Head of Woman
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Cafe au Lait
- still life painting - ordinary objects - Giorgio Morandi
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Cafe au Lait" is a still life watercolor painting featuring hues of grey, brown and yellow.
Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale.
Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...
Category
2010s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Nude in a Mirror
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Nude in a Mirror
Ink and wash on paper, n.d.
Signed in red ink lower right (see photo)
Illustrated: Elliott & Wooden, page 153, a monograph on the artist's drawings
Note: a cop...
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1960s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Sirens, 1973
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Presence of Good and Evil, 1988
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Parlor No. 2, 1973
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Graphite
Parlor No. 1, 1984
Located in Columbia, MO
Jerry Berneche (1932 - 2016) was a painter and draftsman of representational scenes and portraits featuring extraordinary color work and extremely detailed mark-making. Locally he is...
Category
20th Century American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
I am Human Watercolor on Paper
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
I am Human
Watercolor, ink on paper 49"x42" framed
Keith Carrington
Keith Carrington’s experiences have led him to express his talents through the fluid a...
Category
1990s American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Pencil Study #12
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #12
2016-01-01 cca.
Graphite on paper
12 x 7 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the inti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
Pencil Study #11
Located in Columbia, MO
Pencil Study #11
2016
Graphite on paper
10 x 7 inches
Jessica Keiser currently resides in New Haven, Connecticut. Keiser's style is Naturalistic, concerned with the intimacy of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal
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