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Style: American Realist
Bees and Compass Flower, surrealist pastoral oil painting
Located in New York, NY
Both spare and dynamic, Karl Hartman’s hyper-saturated countrysides and surreal depictions of Americana perfectly match the vividness of our late-summer heatwave. Hartman’s tightly c...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Relapse" - contemporary oil painting on found object, humorous swan smoking cig
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Anthony Ackrill paints directly onto found objects, seamlessly blending painting and sculpture. In "Relapse" Ackrill depicts a swan in water, humorously smoking a cigarette. Green li...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Found Objects, Oil

Local Wildlife
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Down
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Old Growth
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ducks, A still life teacups and objects
Located in New York, NY
In Ducks in the Studio Schmitt reveals the influence of the Impressionists and the Pointillists by adopting their bright and pure colors. However, he chose not to paint with small do...
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1970s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic

Crow on a Wire, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A realistic rendering by artist Emil Morhardt of a calm but vigilant crow on a powerline in the early morning sun. The bird is pa...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Two Peas in a Pod, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Two geese turn to regard the viewer along the grassy bank of a quiet lake. "Growing up with my older sister, my mom would always dress us in the exact same clothes," shares Jo Galang. "With the same haircut and similar looks, people would always mistake us for twins since we were almost the same size and height. It was fun back then but as we grew up, we each evolved into our own distinct personalities."


About the Artist
Artist Jo Galang expresses a quiet nostalgia in her airy interpretations of the landscapes and waterways of the Pacific Northwest. Her soft oil paintings capture the meditative sounds of rivers and waterfalls flowing past her easel. During the summer, she spends as much time as possible outside creating plein air sketches and studying the light on the landscape. As a young art student in the Philippines, Jo was privileged to study with the renowned painter Danilo Dalena, who she says encouraged her to be the artist she is today. "I believe my art looks simple enough that people have no idea how much time I have spent working on it," she says. When she is not painting, Jo and her husband enjoy taking road trips, playing cards and finding creative ways to spend time with their granddaughter.


Words that describe this painting: animals, birds, Canada geese, geese, lake, landscape, nature, summer, water, waterfowl, grass, classical, wildlife, animals, classical, realism, representational, oil painting, green


Two Peas in a Pod...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Speeding Crows, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
I saw this pair zooming around my house, cawing wildly on some crow mission," says artist Emil Morhardt. "One would think that Common Crows are black, but in ...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

The Love Letter
Located in Columbia, MO
Ashlee Selburg (American, b. 1989) Ashlee Selburg is a multidisciplinary artist whose ink drawings and paintings are characterized by whimsical narratives, imaginative scenarios, and...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Sleepy Willet
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Willets are usually at the edge of the surf, poking into the wet sand as they follow each wave in and out. This one, when I came on him, was standing above th...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A Northern Shoveler Churning
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Sometimes these handsome ducks, who feed at the Santa Barbara Bird Refuge by plowing through the water with their bills open, take a break from shoveling and ...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Out Running the Waves
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
When I walk along Santa Barbara beaches in winter, Marbled Godwits are the most common bird, often seen in herds, as in thi...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

PIPE SPRINGS American Realist UTAH Western Cowboy Indian Horse Ranch Painting
Located in New York, NY
Jim C. Norton “Pipe Springs” Oil on Masonite Image: 12x16 inches Overall: 18x22 inches with frame Oil on Masonite Signed lower right and verso Up for sale is a wonderful Western pai...
Category

1970s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Lazy Bones
Located in Austin, TX
Gaylon Dingler 22" x 28" Acrylic on Canvas
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Antique Sporting Art Realist Southern Trout Fishing Pole
Located in New York, NY
Asa Coolidge Warren (1819 - 1904) Oil on Canvas Sight Size: 18x20 Overall frame size: 26x28 Signed and Dated left: 1884 Housed in original gold gilded frame Overall very good conditi...
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1880s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

A Lion Mangled Me - A Man Eating Lion
Located in Miami, FL
Using brilliant compositional devices and late afternoon light, Frank McCarthy captures a man at the precise moment before death. The scene is staged wi...
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1960s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Casein, Board

"Mockingbirds in Paradise" American Realist still life with colorful landscape
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Mockingbirds in Paradise" is an American Realist still life with colorful landscape. The landscape was inspired by well-known mid-nineteenth century Hudson River School paintings, f...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Soothsayer
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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 ...
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1950s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Champ
Located in Bozeman, MT
This is a gallery wrap, oil on canvas piece. It could be framed if someone wished to do so.
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Propagation
Located in Columbia, MO
ASHLEE SELBURG Propagartion Ink and pencil on paper 20 x 16 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink

Garden Party II
Located in Columbia, MO
ASHLEE SELBURG Garden Party II Ink and pencil on paper 18 x 14 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Pencil

Hover
Located in Columbia, MO
ASHLEE SELBURG Hover Ink and pencil on paper 20 x 16 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink

Pan
Located in Columbia, MO
ASHLEE SELBURG Pan Ink and pencil on paper 40 x 30 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Pencil

Garden Party
Located in Columbia, MO
ASHLEE SELBURG Garden Party Ink and pencil on paper 28 x 22 inches
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Ink, Pencil

Canada Goose in Flight, Photorealist Wildlife Oil Painting by Peter Darro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Boldly unique in the field of wildlife art are the paintings of artist and naturalist Peter Darro. His rare ability to achieve meticulous accuracy in his subjects, without sacrificin...
Category

1970s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Vintage Illustration Boy with Horse Oil Painting Americana
By Ariane Beigneux
Located in Surfside, FL
This painting, exemplifies the type of traditional portraits the artist Ariane Beigneux was specially known for. Here, Beigneux depicts the portrait of a little boy and horse in a realistic, and seemingly idealized manner. The artist uses local colors and controlled brushstrokes to render the subject, paying close attention to details adding a special clarity to the naturalism of the portrait. it is painted on Whatman illustration board. some drawing in the margins. Ariane Beigneux was born to French parents in Roxbury, CT in 1918 and passed in 2011. She studied art at the National Academy of Design with Gifford Beal, Sidney Dickinson and Ivan Olinsky and at the Art Students League in New York with Jon Corbino and Jean Liberte. Ariane painted professional artist childrens portraits for six decades. Her work was included in the book 6 Artists Paint a Portrait: Alfred Chadbourn...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Advancing Cow
Located in Greenwich, CT
A native of New England, Peter Poskas III paints the charming countryside of coastal Maine and Connecticut, featuring rolling his and tranquil vistas and often local animals. Poskas imbues his paintings with a contemporary approach to color and form while remaining rooted in realist stylistic traditions. Poskas earned a BA from Oberlin College...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

First Light
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Five of Feathers
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chestnut Racehorse with a Jockey Up On a Training Strap
By Henry H. Cross
Located in New York, NY
It was Henry Cross's portraits of horses belonging to the prominent breeders and trainers of the second half of the nineteenth century that won the artist renown as an animal painter. Born and raised in upstate New York, Cross's proficiency in both drafting and caricature was revealed while he was still a student at the Binghamton Academy, New York. In 1852, when he was only fifteen years old, Cross joined a traveling circus that took him to Minneapolis, Minnesota, and to the first of many Indian encampments that he would draw upon for subject matter throughout his career. Biographers differ as to the year Cross left for Europe, however, he was in Paris from 1852 to 1853 or 1854, where he studied with Rosa Bonheur, a highly esteemed French painter of horses. Upon Cross's return to the United States he was commissioned to paint the studs of wealthy horsemen, including those of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Robert Bonner, the owner-publisher of The New York Ledger, and "Copper King" Marcus Daly, whose 18,000 acre stock farm was reputed to be the greatest and most valuable horse ranch in the world. Although Cross received the highest pay of any equine artist of his day (up to $35,000. for one order, according to The Horse Review of April 10, 1918, p. 328), he frequently joined traveling circuses and painted the locales where they visited. He also painted portraits of notable contemporaries, such as President Abraham Lincoln, ex-president Ulysses S. Grant, King Edward VII of England, W. F. "Buffalo Bill...
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19th Century American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Controlled Burn
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ghosts II
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shadows
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mother Son
Located in Greenwich, CT
A native son of New England, Peter Poskas III—like many American artists before him—derives inspiration from the charming towns and tranquil landscapes of coastal Maine and Connectic...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Dinosaurs and volcano. Jurassic park like image
Located in Miami, FL
From the Glynn and Suzanne Crain Collection, unsigned
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1960s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Springtime Melody - Young Girl with Baby Lamb and BlueBirds
Located in Miami, FL
Cuteness personified. An innocent young child holds a cute doll in one hand, and in the other, she has a leashed, soft furry little lamb - while she attends an outdoor concert of si...
Category

1920s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Missionary
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
Category

2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lecturer
Located in Bozeman, MT
Nature is my muse. Animals are losing their habitat and they are, at the very least, confronted by or threatened by all of our discards. Though the birds in my paintings are not vict...
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2010s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Four White Chickens
Located in Missouri, MO
Four White Chickens, 1911 By. Paul Harney (American, 1850-1915) Signed and Dated Lower Left Unframed: 10.25" x 12" Framed: 17" x 19" Paul Harney (1850-1915) Born in New Orleans on ...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bucks On The Madison Bench
Located in Missouri, MO
Bucks On The Madison Bench, 1990 By Larry Zabel (1930-2012) Signed and Dated Lower Right Unframed: 18" x 36" Framed: 26.25" x 44.25" Cowboy artist Larry Zabel was born in Deer Creek, Minnesota, and settled about 70 miles from Yellowstone National Park near McAllister, Montana. Carving and drawing were primary boyhood interests of Zabels. He received an art degree from Long Beach State in California, and spent an additional year at the University of the Americas (formerly Mexico City College). This background led him into a career in technical and commercial illustration, including a decade at the Naval Weapons Center in the California desert, involved in various audio-visual activities. Zabel labeled himself a cowboy artist, as he and his wife moved to Montana in 1988, allowing him to live out a fantasy of Indians, cowboys, and bears. There he was able to paint the life he wanted to live. The subjects of his works include a wide variety of wildlife native to Montana, but his earlier paintings focused on cowboys and Indians. Zabel strove for accurate portrayals, and was most satisfied when the viewer recognized his canyons, ranches, and animals. His acknowledgements and awards include Artist of the Year at the Southern Maryland Wildlife Festival and Best Painting at the Charlie Russell...
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20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Siamese Cat
Located in Missouri, MO
Siamese Cat by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993) Unframed: 14" x 21" Framed: 23.5" x 30.5" Signed and Dated lower middle right Frame was hand made by the artis...
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20th Century American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Longhorn
Located in Austin, TX
A stately portrait of a young, Texas, burnt orange and white, longhorn bull masterfully executed in pastel on paper by David Sanders. The bull sits, sur...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Longhorn
Longhorn
Price Upon Request
In Close Pursuit
Located in Missouri, MO
Site Size: 20 x 15 inches Framed Size: 28.5 x 24 inches Donald Spaulding's artistic talents were recognized early. Encouraged by his high school teachers to pursue formal art traini...
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1990s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Sunset
Located in Missouri, MO
James Fairman "Sunset" c. 1880 Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left Site: 32.5 x 29.5 inches Framed: 46 x 42 inches James Fairman worked as a landscape painter, critic, lecturer, musicia...
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1880s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Feeding Time
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul E. Harney, Jr. "Feeding Time" 1909 Oil on Wood Panel Signed and Dated Panel Size: approx 8 x 12 inches Framed Size: approx. 16 x 19 inches Paul Harney (1850-1915) Born in New ...
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Early 1900s American Realist Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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