Realist Animal Paintings
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
Pheasants in Snow with Winter Trees in the English Countryside by British Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Pheasants in Snow with Winter Trees in the English Countryside by 20th Century Modern British Artist, James Wright
Art measures 22 x 16 inches
Frame measures 27 x 21 inches
Pres...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
An Alsatian hoping for a walk
Located in London, GB
Nancy Jane Burton, G.S.L.A. (Scottish, 1891-1972)
An Alsatian hoping for a walk
signed and dated 'N.J. Burton - 1925 -' (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 x 18 in. (35.5 x 45.8 cm.)
fram...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christmas Toys Greeting Card painting (Children
s room decor)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Ferd Sondern (b.1923)
Christmas Toys, 1978.
Ink and watercolor on illustration board. Complete panel measures 10 x 18 inches.
Signed lower left. Credited on verso.
Printer nota...
Category
1970s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Illustration Board, Gouache
Pair of Terriers, Gianni Reggio (Italian, 1898-1961)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Terriers
Gianni Reggio (Italian, 1898-1961)
Circa 1930s
Gouache on paper
15 x 14 inches (frame)
Signed on the back.
Gianni Reggio was an Italian painter and illustrator wh...
Category
1930s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
"Time of Day" (2018) By Sophy Brown, Original Mixed Media Horse Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Time of Day" (2019) by Sophy Brown is an original mixed media illustration depicting a white horse on the plains.
Painting for me is a way of responding...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A tranquil mountain lake scene with vivid light, colour and natural beauty
Located in Preston, GB
A tranquil mountain lake scene with vivid light, colour and natural beauty, by 20th Century Artist, William Yeaman.
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,458 Sale Price
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20th century English dog portrait of a Pekinese dog called Bumble
Located in Woodbury, CT
Francis Mabel Hollams (British, 1877–1963)
Bumble, 1957
Oil on wood panel
With characteristic precision and affection, Francis Mabel Hollams captures the spirit of a beloved compani...
Category
1950s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
David De Noter Still Life with Curious Cat
By David Emile Joseph de Noter
Located in San Francisco, CA
David De Noter: 1818-1892. Well listed Belgian painter with auction results as high as $142,000. Most famous for his still lifes. This fantastic little gem of a curious cat skipping...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Hunting Dog
by Carl Friedrich Deiker (Wetzlar 1836 – 1892 Dusseldorf)
Located in Knokke, BE
Carl Friedrich Deiker
Wetzlar 1836 – 1892 Dusseldorf
German Painter
'The Hunting Dog'
Signature: signed lower right 'C.F. Deiker'
Medium: oil on panel
Dimensions: image size 29 x 2...
Category
19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"The Partridge", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Spanish Artist Benjamín Palencia
Located in Madrid, ES
BENJAMÍN PALENCIA
Spanish, 1894 - 1980
THE PARTRIDGE
signed & dated "B. Palencia, 66" (lower right)
oil on canvas
25-3/4 x 21-3/8 inches (65 x 54 cm....
Category
1960s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"I Will Take You to Dinner in Sofia"(2021) by Brian Keith Stephens, Original Oil
Located in Denver, CO
"I Will Take You to Dinner in Sofia" is an original oil painting by Brian Keith Stephens. It depicts two playful dogs beneath a palm tree.
How to capture the past, present and fut...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Wax, Oil, Birch
"GUADALUPE ROMANCE" WILDLIFE AXIS DEER FAMILY TEXAS RIVER
By Luke Frazier
Located in San Antonio, TX
Luke Frazier
(Born 1970)
Utah Artist
Image Size: 30 x 48
Frame Size: 39 x 57
Medium: Oil
"Guadalupe Romance"
Biography
Luke Frazier (Born 1970)
Luke Frazier grew up hunting and fishing in the mountains of northern Utah. These early forays into nature instilled a kinship with the wildlife, and a passion for the outdoors. As a child he spent hours scribbling, sketching and sculpting wildlife. Later, his formal art training occurred at Utah State University, where he earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in painting and a Masters of Fine Arts degree in illustration.
Every year, Frazier travels through Alaska, Canada, and the American West painting and photographing animals in their environment. His love of fly fishing and hunting is apparent in his work. Influenced by the art of Winslow Homer, Edgar Payne, Bruno Liljefors...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shawn Faust, "Motorin", Black and White Equine Horse Race Charcoal on Canvas
By Shawn Faust
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This equine drawing, "Motorin'" is a 30x40" charcoal black and white painting on canvas by artist Shawn Faust depicting a horse and jockey in full leap. Complimentary to Faust's traditional oil works, these charcoal on canvas sketches boast a clean and contemporary feeling exhibiting the muscle tone and mass of these majestic creatures. Fixed with varnish, these charcoal works are permanent and best framed or unframed.
About the artist:
Shawn’s love and fascination for drawing came as an unexpected gift from his grandfather at the age of 5. Young Faust was a tag-a-long during his grandfather’s impromptu plein air art lesson with his older brother in the back yard of his Aunt’s house. A retired director for the American Red Cross, Shawn’s grandfather, who had only recently picked up the brush himself, began a charcoal sketch that would forever change how Faust would see the world. From that brief lesson, Faust recalls vividly, “The techniques I witnessed from my grandfather that day, were pure magic!”
With his newfound gift of magic, Shawn quickly began practicing his art of 3D illusion for anyone who wanted to see it. During his childhood, you would be hard pressed not to find Shawn doodling on a piece of paper at some point during the day.
Among his favorite things to draw as a youngster were his comic book heroes. Instead of reading the comics, he spent all his time studying the line work and muscle forms of the comic book characters. And so, began his interest in portraying the human form.
Upon entering college at the University Of Delaware, Shawn enrolled as an accounting major yet emerged with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1990. At the U of D he is forever grateful for the privilege of studying under distinguished artists Stephen Tanis, Charles Rowe, Robert Straight and Rosemary Lane.
Shortly after graduating, Shawn embarked on a career in Illustration. By 1993 he had quickly become one of Delaware’s prominent architectural illustrators working for more than 75% of the homebuilders in Delaware.
Between illustration jobs, Shawn pursued his interest in portrait painting. In 1992 Faust was commissioned to paint the official portrait of outgoing Delaware Governor, Michael Castle. Continuing his quest to learn more about portrait painting, Faust studied with Daniel Greene in 1995. He credits Daniel Greene for giving him the greatest key to unlocking a whole new way of seeing and interpreting color.
By 1995, Shawn’s portrait commissions and easel paintings were supporting him as much as his illustration jobs, so he decided to focus entirely on his fine art career. This included opening a gallery and custom frame shop with his wife and brother. During the twelve years of owning and operating the gallery, Shawn continued his intense portrait research by focusing his studies on the eyes of his favorite subject, the horse.
His head studies of horses caught the attention of Mr. Richard Golden, a prominent horse owner in Chesapeake City, MD and president of Northview Stallion Station. Northview is best know for standing Northern Dancer...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Varnish
“Herd of Horses in a Marshy Landscape” Frances Mabel Hollams (England 1877-1963)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“Herd of Horses in a Marshy Landscape”
Frances Mabel Hollams (England 1877-1963)
Oil on canvas on board
14 x 20 (24 x 30 frame) inches
Signed “FM...
Category
1920s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Leopard- original realist oil painting-contemporary wildlife art
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
452. Out of the Darkness - original realism wildlife painting - contemporary art
By Paul Jansen
Located in London, Chelsea
We offer complimentary worldwide shipping and cover all tariffs and import taxes for this artwork. This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"The View Of Jerusalem" 19th-century Realism Orientalist Oil on Panel
By Anna Richards Brewster
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance: Private Collection, Palm Beach, Fl.
AB Levy Gallery, October, 2019
Description:
Experience the captivating artistry of Anna Richards Brewster (1870...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Oil Painting of a Trout Run in a Woodland River in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of a Trout Run in a Woodland River in the English Countryside by 20th Century Artist, John Caesar Smith (British, Born 1930)
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measure...
Category
1990s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"London prophecies"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
One of my best works in this series is "Art from Money." It's a painting with a philosophical meaning: it reflects the philosophy of human impact on the planet.
This prophetic painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Antique American Fluffy Pomeranian Dog Portrait Wide Gold Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible signed early American dog portrait painting. Oil on board. Signed. Housed in a period gold giltwood frame.
Category
1870s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
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Waiting for the Flock" by Nathan Durfee, Acrylic on Vintage Postcard
Located in Denver, CO
Nathan Durfee's (USA) "Waiting for the Flock" is an original, mixed media painting with acrylic and vintage postcard that depicts a snow covered landscape with a bird in a ball cap ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Postcard
"Vincent" Realist Cat Portrait in the Outdoors Oil Painting on Carved Wood Panel
By Chaval
Located in New York, NY
With the medium of traditional oil paint, this charming piece by Chaval is exceptionally detailed and thought-provoking. Following a realist approach, yet depicting some playful impe...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Fuzzy, Oil Painting, Realism, Cuban Artist, Sheep, Framed, Free Shipping
Located in Houston, TX
Images may be seen better on a mobile device. FREE SHIPPING . Framed Size 15 x 15
Fuzzy is a new Manchega sheep painting by Cristian Mesa Velazquez. Fuzz...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Koko, with her favourite ball
Located in London, GB
Vivian Evans, circa 1907
Koko, with her favourite ball
signed and dated ‘VIVIAN EVANS. 1907.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
10 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (27.3 x 40 cm.)
frame 17 x 22 in. (43.2 x 55...
Category
Early 20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Turner" Realist Dog Portrait in the Field Oil Painting on Carved Wood Panel
By Chaval
Located in New York, NY
With the medium of traditional oil paint, this charming piece by Chaval is exceptionally detailed and thought-provoking. Following a realist approach, yet depicting some playful impe...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Monkey with Wine Jug, Zacharias Noterman (Bel. Fr. 1824-1890)
By Zacharias Noterman
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Portrait of a Monkey with Wine Jug
Zacharias Noterman (Belgium & France 1824-1890)
Initialed "Z N" l.r.
Oil on board
8 x 6 inches
PROVENANCE: Galerie Tamenaga, Paris (label verso); Louvre des Antiquaires, Paris; Berman Swarttz, Los Angeles, California, Marcella Swarttz, Beverly Hills, California
8 x 6 inches
Zacharias Notermann (1820 in Ghent – 1890 in Paris) was a Belgian painter and printmaker who specialized in scenes with monkeys engaging in human activities (the so-called singeries), as well as in paintings of dogs. He also produced images and scenes of traveling circuses.
Zacharias Noterman was born in Ghent in the family as the son of an artist-decorator. He was originally trained by his older brother Emmanuel Noterman, genre and animal painter active in Antwerp. Noterman continued his art education at the Academy of fine arts Antwerp. Zacharie Noterman...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Fortification, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Che Leviathan (US based) "Fortification" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a brown horse in profile, with thick black mane and a black a...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$5,800 Sale Price
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Beth Parcell, "Soft Spot", 9x12 Golden Retriever Dog Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This animal portrait, "Soft Spot", is a 9x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a deep red golden retriever resting in the light of the sun.
About the artist:
Beth’s favorite subject...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Old McDonald
s Farm" Aaron Bohrod, Pun Humor, Magic Realism, Midwestern Rural
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod
Old McDonald's Farm, 1989
Signed lower right
Oil on gesso board
14 x 18 inches
Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as ...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Dog Painting of a Terrier- "The Shah" George Earl (England, 1824-1908)
By George Earl
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting of a Terrier: “The Shah”
George Earl (England, 1824-1908)
Circa 1870
Oil on canvas.
12 ¾ x 12 ¾ (21 x 21 frame) inches.
Orig...
Category
1860s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique 19th Century Norwegian Artists Oil Painting Pastoral Windmill Shepherd
Located in Stockholm, SE
Attributed to Morten Müller (1828-1911) and Olaf Christopher Dahl (1842-1895), signed lower right, this extraordinary antique oil painting captures the timeless beauty of 19th century Norwegian pastoral landscape. This exceptional collaborative masterpiece, painted circa 1870-1880 during the golden age of Norwegian landscape art, depicts an enchanting countryside scene where a young shepherd boy guides his cattle to a tranquil watering hole. The composition unfolds like a gentle poem of rural life, with lush vegetation embracing rolling hills while an ancient windmill stands majestically on the distant hillside, creating striking focal point and masterful perspective. Rich oil painting technique reveals the artists' shared vision of Norway's serene countryside, where peaceful pastoral tranquility below contrasts dramatically with gathering storm clouds above. This romantic Norwegian landscape tradition showcases nuanced brushwork and atmospheric effects that exemplify the peak of Scandinavian art movement. Both renowned Norwegian artists are prominently featured in National Museum Oslo permanent collection, confirming their significant contribution to Nordic artistic heritage. This rare antique oil painting represents sublime testament to 19th century collaborative artistry, where two masters united their talents to create lasting vision of Norway's natural beauty.
Size app.: 46 x 69 cm (roughly 18.1 x 27.2 in), with frame 60 x 84 cm cm (roughly 23.6 x 33.1 in). Good condition with wear, tiny losses to paint in minor areas and craquelure. So it needs minor care and conservation. Please study good resolution images for overall cosmetic condition. In person actual painting may appear darker or brighter than in our pictures, strictly depending on sufficient light in your environment. Weight of app. 4.4 kg is going to measure some 6 kg volume weight packed for shipment.
Morten Müller began his art studies with Adolph Tidemand and Hans Gude in Düsseldorf, Germany, from 1847 to 1848. From 1850 he was again a student at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, with Johann Wilhelm Schirmer as a teacher. From 1850 to 1851, Müller painted with the Swedish landscape painter Marcus...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Vintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist
By Peter McKay
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist, Peter McKay
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures ...
Category
20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peter McKayVintage Lakeland Landscape Painting with Sheep by 20th Century British Artist, 1975 Circa
$1,802 Sale Price
20% Off
"Surefooted Team" (2019) By Lindsey Bittner Graham, Original Oil Animal Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Surefooted Team" (2019) by Lindsey Bittner Graham is an original handmade oil painting that depicts a horse drawn carriage walking through a snowy forest. This Painting measures at ...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Summer Landscape With Cattle by British Artist Sidney Pike, Oil on Canvas
By Sidney Pike
Located in Stockholm, SE
A wonderful painting by British artist Sidney Pike (1846-1907).
Pike is best known for his depictions of the English countryside, and he attended many time...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Study of a Butterfly, Watercolour on Silk Applied to Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
One from a set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Signed bottom right. (The other 3 items are available separately)
A beautifully observed and detailed study of a butterfly painted...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
$805 Sale Price
43% Off
A Still Life with Sparrow and Grapes, Artist 19th century, European School
Located in Knokke, BE
A Still Life with Sparrow and Grapes
Artist 19th century
European School
Signature: Verso signed and dated 1883
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: Image size 23 x 18 cm, frame size 3...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A basket upgrade (springer spaniel)
Located in London, GB
Painted in 1922, this sensitive and beautifully observed portrait captures the quiet intelligence and loyal character of a liver-and-white Springer Spaniel. Seated with dignity on a ...
Category
1920s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Dodo - Pekingese Dog - Scottish 1920
s art dog portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This absolutely charming portrait of a Pekingese dog called Dodo is attributed to much loved Scottish artist Samuel Fulton. Famous as an animal artist and chiefly a painter of dogs, this has got to be one of his best if you are a Pekingese fan. Painted circa 1920, Dodo, a lovely little black and tan dog is sat profile but is turning to look at the artist/viewer. Beneath him is a beautiful orange and brown Persian rug...
Category
1920s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,462 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting of the English Countryside with River Otters by Modern British Artist
By James Wright
Located in Preston, GB
Traditional Oil Painting of the English Countryside with River Otters by Modern British Landscape Artist
Art measures 30 x 20 inches
Frame measures 36 x 26 inches
James Wright...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Apprehensive
Located in Denver, CO
Grouping of brown horses
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Andrada Trapnell
s
Shadows
Original Pair of Black Horses Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Andrada Trapnell's "Shadows" is a captivating original artwork created in 2023. This piece measures 30 x 40 inches and features a masterful blend of o...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Study of a Butterfly, Watercolour on Silk Applied to Handmade Paper.
Located in Cotignac, FR
One from a set of four watercolours of butterflies on silk, applied to handmade paper, with hand cut edges, by French artist La Roche Laffitte. Signed bottom right. (The other 3 items are available separately)
A beautifully observed and detailed study of a butterfly painted...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Silk, Watercolor, Gouache, Handmade Paper, Carbon Pencil
"Hello Dolly" by Tracy Wall, Original Mixed Media Painting, Horse Portrait
Located in Denver, CO
Tracy Wall's (Colorado, US based) "Hello Dolly" is an original, handmade, mixed media painting that portrays a white horse in beautiful light with contrasting green foliage. The piece is unframed yet ready to hang with gallery-wrapped canvas.
As an artist, Tracy Wall sheds new light on everyday life, inviting the viewer to see the familiar as if for the very first time. Working with a variety of subjects, Tracy paints interesting viewpoints with compelling value, color, and shapes. Appealing compositions are everywhere, and they make strong impressions from afar even before the subject matter is recognized. She loves to balance representational impressions with more abstracted compositions. Tracy has studied at the Art Students League of Denver under such influential artists as Michelle Torrez, Ken Velastro, Kevin Weckbach, John Lencicki, and Rob Gratiot while also participated in additional workshops from Sally Strand, Carol Marine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Red-Tailed Hawk on the Hunt, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt paints a swooping hawk he observed circling the sky and then landing on a tall nearby tree. The bird inspects the many gopher holes nearby. Emil captures it just as it launches a successful attack—painting the plumage with fine detailed brushwork and intense colors against a pure white background. The piece embodies the essence of this powerful raptor.
About the Artist
Emil Morhardt is an acrylic painter from Santa Barbara, California who expresses his passion for birds through realistic acrylic paintings. He paints at home in a studio room that has large windows and a north-facing view of the mountains. He observes the animals from this window, watching roadrunners, foxes, bobcats, deer, and coyote run by. Surrounded by this wildlife, Emil paints bird portraits reminiscent of those by artist John James Audubon. He bases his paintings off hundreds of photographs he takes of birds in the wild and at wildlife recovery centers. Emil captures the freedom and inquisitiveness that birds display...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"The Sunset Morpho on Shades of Slate
Umber" Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lindsey Kustusch's "The Sunset Morpho on Shades of Slate & Umber" is an original oil on wood panel artwork, sized at 12 x 12 x 1.50 inches. This 2023 piece, crafted by the artist's h...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
British Chalk Pencil Sketch of a Sheep Munching The Grass
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922)
graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condition
Ha...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Graphite
"Stardust" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shelli Langdale's "Stardust" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a horse grazing on yellow dandelions as the night sky fills with stars.
Artist Bio:
Shelli Langdale is an oil painter living and painting in Chattanooga, TN. U.S.A. She has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Pastoral Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Unidentified Artist (19th Century)
"Pastoral Landscape with Shepherd and Sheep" (1860)
This idyllic 19th-century oil painting on canvas beautifully...
Category
19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Rainbow Trout" (2022) By Morgan Cameron, Animal Still-Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Rainbow Trout” is an oil painting on panel that depicts a swimming rainbow trout.
This painting is unframed, but ready to hang.
About the artist:
I ...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
What Lies Beneath, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist John Jaster presents a solitary crimson waterlily surrounded by a thick carpet of lush green leaves. "The frog patiently si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Daylight Dreamer" Oil Painting by Claudia Griesbach-Martucci, Whimsical Lamb
Located in Denver, CO
Claudia Griesbach-Martucci's "Daylight Dreamer" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lamb in a peaceful trance surrounded by flowers, a butterfly and a bee. This pain...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Beauty
, a mischievous terrier
Located in London, GB
Jean Matet (French, 1870-1936)
'Beauty' - a mischievous terrier
signed and dated ‘J. Matet' (lower left) and inscribed and dated 'BEAUTY. 1898’ (lower right)
oil on canvas
13 x 9 ⅞ i...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horses in a Landscape - Scottish 1960
s equine art oil painting female artist
Located in Hagley, England
This superb oil painting of horses is by Scottish female artist Doris Zinkeisen. Painted circa 1960 the composition has six horses in a landscape. There is great impasto and brushwor...
Category
1960s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Where the Tall Grass Grows
Located in Denver, CO
"Where the Tall Grass Grows," is an original oil painting by Brian Keith Stephens. It is unframed, but ready-to-hang.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Cotton, Oil
Portrait of an English Back and White bagger in a landscape
By M.Naplee
Located in Woodbury, CT
Portrait of an English Back and White bagger in a landscape.
Very Pretty English Bagger in an extensive landscape painted circa 1970.
The painting is an amazing display of an artis...
Category
1970s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
"Tierra" Acrylic and Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Kierstin Young's (US based) "Tierra" is an acrylic and oil painting depicting a Comet Moth and it's yellow and red designs
Artist Statement/Bio:
(b. The Year of the Rabbit) Kierstin's life began by almost never beginning at all. A car accident occurred while Kierstin’s mother was pregnant with her. The doctors advised against continuing the pregnancy for fear that Kierstin would be born without limbs or even blind. Her parents decided against it, and Kierstin was born a healthy child. This story was relayed to her as a child as a reminder of how serendipitous her life was.
Kierstin was always filled with an overflowing energy and creativity. This led her on many diverse paths in life. Her many areas of focus included psychology, poetry, photography, mountaineering, religious studies, music, playing ice hockey, spelunking and pretending to be an astronaut.
She grew up between two places; the first was a house built on Native American burial grounds in rural New Jersey. The second was a summer home in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains of New York. For the first sixteen years of her life, she was home taught by an assortment of sane and insane people. Her junior year she began the strange new adventure of going to school. She was most likely the only 16 year old in the world to be that ecstatic about riding a school bus, because it was for the first time in her life. It was there in public school, that her art teachers really encouraged her to pursue her love of art.
Hopes were high for going to art school, but Kierstin found herself forbidden from even applying by her parents. She applied anyway. Upon getting rejected from prestigious art schools such as RISD and Parsons, Kierstin decided to attend duCret school of Art. Being rejected turned out to be a serendipitous turn of events for Kierstin once again. It was there at duCret that she met Timothy Jahn and began studying in his Academy duCret and subsequently Jahn Studios. This lead her to continue her education at the Ani Art Academy under the direction of Anthony Waichulis.
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Acrylic
"Shade and Shadow", Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Morgan Cameron’s (US based) “Shade and Shadow” is an oil painting that depicts a white wolf peering through a fallen tree.
This painting is unframed, ...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Blue Jay" Original Oil Painting by Susan McDonnell, Avian Art
Located in Denver, CO
Susan McDonnell's "Blue Jay," created in 2021, is a masterful oil on panel that captures the vibrant essence and lively demeanor of its avian subject. Measuri...
Category
2010s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Faun and Fawn" Aaron Bohrod, Realist Still Life, Deer and Putti
By Aaron Bohrod
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod
Faun and Fawn, 1984
Signed lower right
Oil on gesso board
16 x 12 inches
Aaron Bohrod's work has not been limited to one style or medium. Initially recognized as a regionalist painter of American scenes, particularly of his native Chicago, Bohrod later devoted himself to detailed still-life paintings rendered in the trompe l'oeil style. He also worked for several years in ceramics and wrote a book on pottery.
Born in 1907, Bohrod began his studies at Chicago's Crane Junior College in 1925, and two years later enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago. But it was at the Art Students League in New York City, from 1930 to 1932, that he studied under the man believed to be his most significant early influence, John Sloan. Sloan's romantic realism is reflected in the many depictions of Chicago life, which comprised most of Bohrod's early work.
Under Sloan's tutelage, Bohrod came to subscribe to the belief that painters should find the subjects of their art in the immediate world around them. These paintings emphasized architecture unique to north Chicago and featured Chicagoans engaged in such everyday activities as working, playing or going to the theatre. The romantic aspect was conveyed by the use of misty colors, and the realism by attention to detail.
In 1936, Bohrod won the Guggenheim Fellowship award in creative painting...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Impossible Series (Garden with Peacock), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993)
Title: Impossible Series (Garden with Peacock)
Year: 1986
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 81 x 104 inches
Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, ver...
Category
1980s Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$44,000 Sale Price
20% Off
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