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Style: American Realist
Storm Gust
Located in Greenwich, CT
North Carolina native Jack Saylor received his degree in Art from Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. Upon graduating he moved to Spain, then Italy w...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Resting at The Shore, Mother and Child, Detroit Artist
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
etta Crapo Smith (American, 1862 - 1921)
Signed: L. Crapo Smith (Lower, Left)
" Resting on the Shore ", January 9, 1898
Pastel and Gouache on Paper
18" x 13"
Housed in its origi...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
The Ruse
Located in Fairfield, CT
My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that “anything can be art”, and at the same time I seek out a balanced and harmonious composition by way of line, shape, and color. I work according to my whimsy, sometimes seeking to assert some form of narrative however personal or ambiguous, and other times I am simply satisfied with the hint of a human presence.
Once I have my compositions the paintings then very quickly become about work, a very labor intensive work that forces me to focus my mind and slow things down (which I feel is relevant especially in this day and age of high-speed everything). A great amount of effort is spent on trying to get to the highest level of finish that is possible according to my current skill level.
For inspiration I have drawn from the past four centuries of object specific paintings, from the ontbijtjes (laid tables) of the 17th Century Dutch masters such as Willem Kalf, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Abraham van Beijeren...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Oliver No.3
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery NYC and LA. Stott’s work is almost object portraiture, applying traditional still life compositions and lighting but ventures beyond time honore...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Grapes" antique dining tray, unique mini oil painting detail, still life, fruit
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An antique serving platter with a miniature realist painting by American surrealist artist, Anthony Ackrill. Tiny trompe l'oeil, still-life of loose red grapes and a daisy peeking ou...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Silver
View from the Creeks
By Lori Zummo
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1962
Contemporary artist Lori Zummo paints in a style evocative of the American Barbizon School. She received her BFA from Syrac...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shoreline Cloudscape, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Nancy Hughes Miller paints a majestic seaward skyline with tinges of periwinkle. Inspired by her time on the coasts of North Carolina, she displays a d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
$8,400
Bethesda Terrace Arcade (Central Park)
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
Signed lower left
American, b. 1950
Marla Korr attended Brooklyn College, earning both a B.A. and a M.F.A. There she studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Billboard Dusk 1
Located in Fairfield, CT
The pursuit for something new, unique forms and compositions, found in our everyday exterior environments are the subjects that are consistently sought after as the major contributor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Table Elegance
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Table Elegance" c.2010, is an oil painting on panel by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower right corner...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Medicine Hat" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Lani Vlaanderen's (US based) "Medicine Hat" is an oil painting that depicts a small group of wild horses grazing peacefully in golden sunlit meadow
Bio/artist statement:
Living in the mountains near Rocky Mountain National Park Lani is never lacking something inspiring to paint, be it a grand sunrise on Long's Peak or a small sparrow perched on a pine branch. All fill her with the desire to put paint to canvas. Her goal is not to replicate what she sees, but to express her emotional response from the source of inspiration visually in paint and convey it to the world. She wants to communicate the awe she feels when in the natural world and the joy she experiences from seeing even the seemingly most insignificant moment in time that will never come again. She strives to convey her belief that all things, all beings, all life and non-life, share equal significance and are essential to the whole.
"I began my art quest by taking a few classes at Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, then enrolled in Kim English's class at the Art Student's Leaque of Denver. After four years with Kim and functioning as his class monitor, I had the opportunity to participate in a painting group with Richard Schmid in Loveland Colorado. I painted there with him for six years. I have taken workshops from such masters as David Leffel, Sherrie McGraw...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hydrangeas and Other Garden Flowers
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): John Ross Key 1882
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fallen Leaves
By Frank Corso
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1952
Frank Corso was born in Syracuse New York. Taking a keen interest in art at a very early age, he was inspired to draw and paint the landscape of the Finger Lakes r...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lex and 78th
By Steven Katz
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis' Gallery, NY
LA
Steven Katz's work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums across the U.S. His paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$5,400
Above Big Pine
Located in Burlingame, CA
This American realist western landscape, "Above Big Pine", depicts a scene from the majestic Sierra Nevadas in an area above Big Pine in Inyo County from celebrated artist Willard Di...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cowboy Hanging, Killer
s Trail Illustration
By Victor Kalin
Located in Miami, FL
The old west depicted in a graphic and dramatic manner. Paperback Novel Cover Painting Original Art (Avon, 1963). Work has a matted image area of 12.5" ...
Category
1960s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Beach at Crissy Field
(San Francisco, California)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring the Golden Gate Bridge from Crissy Field in San Francisco. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters today, has painted coastal landscapes for 35 years, capturing the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The painting, with its atmospheric light and calm palette is contemporary and serene. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his work is collected Internationally. Artist signed and dated. A classic Dixon that will sure to bring those who view it a life time of pleasure.
Beach at Crissy Field, painted in 2022. the canvas is 26 x 45 inches. Oil on canvas, and traditionally framed in contemporary, minimal hardwood floater frame.Condition is new and excellent. Artist signed and dated. Ready to ship. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Secluded Bridge" Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Secluded Bridge" by Diego Glazer is an original oil painting depicting a serene river bathed in warm afternoon light and shaded by a picturesque bridge.
About the Artist:
For as l...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
InPublic: Shade
By Scott Duce
Located in Greenwich, CT
Scott Duce Biography
American, b. 1956
Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Peek-a-Boo
By Seymour Joseph Guy
Located in New York, NY
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world.
Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...
Category
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$110,000
At the Clinton Station Diner, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The Clinton Station Diner is one of New Jersey's landmark diners. I was seated in this particular room that is actually a salvaged train dining car. I could n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hungry Wolves Hunt a Women Up a Tree at Night - Gay Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing Gay Female illustrator of the Golden Age Ida Waugh paints and powerful narrative of a woman cowering in a tree while a hungry pack of wolves wait beneath her for dinner feast. Signed lower left. Framed under glass,
Ida Waugh (October 24, 1846 – January 25, 1919) was an American illustrator of children's literature who often collaborated with her lifelong companion, Amy Ella Blanchard.
Personal life
Ida Waugh was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 24, 1846, the daughter of painter Samuel B. Waugh and his first wife, Sarah Mendenhall, therefore she was half-sister of painter Frederick Judd Waugh. Her step-mother was Mary Eliza Young Waugh, a miniaturist.
She attended Académie Julian and Académie Delécluse in Paris, studying with Georges Callot, Paul-Louis Delance, and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant.In 1868 she attended the first "Ladies Life Class" at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; in the same class there were Emily Sartain and Catherine Ann Drinker.
Career
Ida Waugh collaborated with her partner Amy Ella Blanchard in publishing children's books, Waugh as illustrator and Blanchard as writer. Waugh also published books on her own
Other than a children's book illustrator, Waugh was an award-winning painter. In 1869 she exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts two works, "The Bargain" and a portrait bust of Carl Gaertner.
Her self-portrait and another painting, "Little Cosette" (1870), are in the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, both donated by Mrs. John S. Haug in 1961.They were part of the exhibition "Women and Biography" in 2014, including: Elizabeth Shippen Green, Violet Oakley, Edith Emerson, Anne Minich, Catherine Mulligan, Mitzi Melnicoff, Alice Kent Stoddard, Aubrey Levinthal, Martha Armstrong...
Category
1980s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Golden Rod and other Wildflowers
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): John Ross Key 1882
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida" Beatrix Sherman, American, Mid 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Beatrix Sherman
Hialeah Park Race Track, Florida, 1947
Signed lower right
Oil on canvasboard
16 x 20 inches
Beatrix Sherman (1894-1975), who changed her first name from Beatrice by...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Warm Night In Portofino" Oil Painting by Tom Swimm
By Tom Swimm
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Glowing lights and warm purple and lavenders highlight this inviting Italian night scene, "Warm Night In Portofino," a superb example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sag Harbor Pier" American Realist landscape of boats and a sunset in small town
By Carl Bretzke
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Sag Harbor Pier" is an American Realist oil painting; a seascape of docked boats and a sunset in small town Sag Harbor, Long Island.
Signed "C.Bretzke" lower right corner.
Frame...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a Chow Chow, Late 19th Century Dog Painting, Slightly Naive
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
American, Late 19th Century
Signed: H. A. Kleine
" Portrait of a Chow Chow ", circa 1880s
Oil on Board
13 1/2" x 11"
Housed in its original 1 3/4" Frame
Overall Size: 16 3/8...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
"Study for Long Beach" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Located in New York, NY
"Study for Long Beach" WPA Mid 20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modernism Ashcan
Daniel Ralph Celantano (1902-1980)
"Study for Long Beach"
8 x 10 inches
Oil on artist bo...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Egret in the Creeks
By Marla Korr
Located in Greenwich, CT
Marla Korr attended Brooklyn College, earning both a B.A. and a M.F.A. There she studied with Philip Pearlstein, Lennart Anderson and Jimmy Ernst. She has also studied at Stevenson...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Awakened, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The sky and sea converge in artist Jenn Williamson's arresting panoramic piece. She explores light and darkness, searching for beauty in quiet, unnoticed places, thus creating a spiritual oasis. "I painted this piece during a season of spiritual and personal awakening from a season of trials," shares Jenn. She expresses the peace and tranquility in her soul for which she is genuinely grateful.
About the Artist
Jenn Williamson expertly evokes the scenery of British Columbia in her soft abstract landscapes. She utilizes defining horizontal and vertical strokes, coupled with a skillful handling of color, to create significant depth in each piece. Her paintings, though abstracted, clearly convey the atmospheric attributes of the scene–rain, wind, clouds, fog. Jenn’s muted color palette transports the viewer to the Canadian west coast...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
De Donde Eres - Large Colorful Original City Painting Los Angeles Artist
By Danny Brown
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danny Brown’s artworks allocate an intrinsic connection between himself and the diverse communities occupying Los Angeles. Brown combines art history, streetwear trends, and pop art symbolism to create a signature style with a soft and fun, yet edgy character. He is willing to address a very unique point of view about social issues of our day with unmistakable perspectives. His artworks have the potential to influence a new generation of artists, incorporating diversity and respect for varying cultures.
This one-of-a-kind acrylic and oil stick painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
John Mansueto, "Moon Light Barn" 20x16, Rural Barn Original Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece "Moon Light Barn" is a 20x16 original painting by the artist John Mansueto. Depicted is a a solitary barn late at night. A single light shines on the ride side of the barn...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Strings
By Joel Carson Jones
Located in Greenwich, CT
Joel Carson Jones Biography
American, b. 1975
Joel Carson Jones lives, teaches, and paints in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1975. With the work-ethic of the Scran...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Valley of the Rocks" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison's (UK based) "Valley of the Rocks" is an oil painting that depicts an arid landscape with clouds and towering rock formations.
Sometimes they are silent epic landscap...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Sailing on the Hudson River" American Oil Painting on Board of Ships at Sea
Located in New York, NY
A Fine depiction of a Sailing Ship in the Hudson River. For this wonderful depiction, Nemethy uses a Fine technique which depicts the figures on the boat in a miniature way. With joyful colors, this piece is bright and peaceful. This painting is signed by the artist lower left and it comes comes housed in a beautiful simple wood frame and ready to be displayed with hanging wire on verso.
This painting measures 8 x 14 inches
Framed measures 13 x 19 inches
PROVENANCE: Lilac Gallery...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Just One Lick" by 3rd Version, Whimsical Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Just One Lick" is a 2024 acrylic and oil painting on cotton canvas by 3rd Version (Ben Patterson), measuring 36 x 24 x 1 inches, with a framed size of 38 x 26 inches. The work is un...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Panel
Sans titre (1945), Warren Francis Snow
By Warren Francis Snow
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Warren Francis Snow (1869-1962)
Title: Sans titre (1945)
Year: 1945
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 56.5 x 35 inches
Inscription: Hand signed and dated, recto
Provenance: Propert...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
$11,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Last Wave, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jesse Aldana paints a dramatic shoreline view of the Santa Monica Bay. A surfer lines up a final ride as evening deepens under heavy blanket clouds. In...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Geometric Pot Patterns Diptych on Pink, Ancient Vessels Painting on Paper, 2024
Located in Barcelona, ES
This modern still life diptych by Gio Bellagio is inspired by ancient Greek ceramic vessels. The pots are adorned with minimalist patterns reminiscent of Greek geometry, emphasising...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
"The Ordell, Brooklyn Bridge" Margaretha E. Albers, New York Urban Cityscape
Located in New York, NY
Margaretha E. Albers
The Ordell, Brooklyn Bridge
Signed LR
Oil on artist board
12 x 16 inches
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York
Private Collection, New York
St. Lifer Art, New...
Category
1930s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Dead Pine Evening, Oil Painting
By Jay Jensen
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
I've painted this scene a couple of times before. There a lots of dead pines facing the channel that separates the coast of Maine from Grand Manan Island, exc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Race Day
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on panel by Jenness Cortez signed and dated lower left beautifully framed and matted measuring 16" x 21" including the frame. This painting features two jockeys and their race ho...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spice Market, Marrakesh Morocco
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
John Hanlen (1922-2003).
Spice Market, Marrakesh, Morocco, ca. 1950.
Tempera on paper, sheet measures 18.5 x 23 inches. Measurement with matting: 26 x 32 inches. The piece is unfr...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Tempera
Androscoggin River Falls, study for The Manufacturers National Bank of Lewiston-
Located in Miami, FL
If there ever were a perfect work in the canon of art history, this masterpiece study by Dean Cornwell would be it. Every line has meaning and not a line out of place, as Cornwell d...
Category
1950s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Ten Lemons on Blue, Large Photorealist Painting by Lowell Blair Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lowell Blair Nesbitt's arrangement of lemons against a blue tablecloth is full of contrast and color. With light shining over the table and casting shadows across the cloth, the lemo...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
In the Calm, Oil Painting
By Gary Leonard
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Gary Leonard juxtaposes a realistic figure clothed in a floral dress against a dreamy background that hints at a wild garden. The spotlight heightens her reserved gesture and timid expression while giving her skin a soft glow. Shadows on her face, neck, and body create a striking contrast to the lighter tones of the composition. "This work creates an atmosphere of calm, blending the woman's soft countenance and pastel greens of nature. "
About the Artist
Through composition, color, texture and more, Gary Leonard celebrates beauty. His works start with the subject, but then he lets the work evolve into a more complex composition. Oftentimes, he enjoys merging figures with abstract images and varying textures. He hopes that his works will leave the viewer with a sense of warmth and peace. When he's not making art, he enjoys listening to music and learning how to play the piano.
Words that describe this painting: figurative, figure, people, woman, fashion, standing, peaceful, oilpaint, dreamy, vertical, realism, people, realism, oil painting, beige
In the Calm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Nude with Light Blue" Oil Painting
By Jacob Dhein
Located in Denver, CO
Jacob Dhein's (US based) "Nude with Light Blue" is an oil painting that depicts a nude female figure with her black robe parted with a white patterned background
Bio/artist statement:
Jacob Dhein was interested in art as a child. Crayons and colored pencils were his tools of expression. He spent hours intricately crafting drawings of comic book heroes and animals. By the time he graduated from high school, one of his drawings was exhibited on the wall of a local bank. It wasn't until he was a sophomore at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh that he decided to take a drawing class. He found this so compelling that he continued with sculpture and painting. During this time he met several accomplished and influential artists who encouraged him to pursue a career in art. Tc Farley...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Young Bull
Located in Columbia, MO
Nora Othic is considered one of the top regionalist painters in the Midwest. She builds on a legacy from her artistic predecessors such as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and the WPA ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Misty City", Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "Misty City" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts orange and green hued clouds arching over a water and city lights
Bio/artist statement:
Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
"Girl and Kitten"
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Kluth spent all of his adult life living and painting in Brooklyn, NY. He was a founding Member of the Brooklyn Society of Artists (member 1888-1920)
Ridgewood Council
After growing...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Street Scene: "King George Dies"
Located in New York, NY
Fransioli was born in Seattle, Washington, and received a degree in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania in 1930. He worked with John Russell Pope on plans for the exhibition galleries at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which he pinpointed as the beginning of his interest in painting. World War II interrupted a promising career in architecture. Fransioli served in the Pacific Theatre from 1943 until 1946, and was among the first American soldiers to survey Hiroshima after the atomic bomb’s detonation in August 1945. He returned to civilian life and took up painting, basing himself in Boston, but working up and down the eastern seaboard.
Thomas Fransioli’s cityscapes are crisp and tidy. Buildings stand in bold outline, their forms squarely defined by stark light and long shadows. Saturated color permeates every corner of his canvases, from vibrant oranges and greens to smoky terra cottas and granites. Even the trees that line Fransioli’s streets, parks, and squares are sharp and angular, exactly like those in an architect’s elevation rendering. But Fransioli’s cities often lack one critical feature: people. His streets are largely deserted, save for parked cars and an occasional black cat scurrying across the pavement. People make rare appearances in Fransioli’s compositions, and never does the entropy of a crowd overwhelm their prevailing sense of order and precision. People are implied in a Fransioli painting, but their physical presence would detract from the scene’s bleak and surreal beauty.
Magic Realism neatly characterizes Fransioli’s artistic viewpoint. The term was first broadly applied to contemporary American art in the 1943 Museum of Modern Art exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists. As exhibition curator Dorothy Miller noted in her foreword to the catalogue, Magic Realism was a “widespread but not yet generally recognized trend in contemporary American art…. It is limited, in the main, to pictures of sharp focus and precise representation, whether the subject has been observed in the outer world—realism, or contrived by the imagination—magic realism.” In his introductory essay, Lincoln Kirstein took the concept a step further: “Magic realists try to convince us that extraordinary things are possible simply by painting them as if they existed.”
This is Fransioli, in a nutshell. His cityscapes exist in time and space, but certainly not in the manner in which he portrays them.
Fransioli—and other Magic Realists of his time—was also the heir to Precisionism, spawned from Cubism and Futurism after the Great War and popularized in the 1920s and early 1930s. While Fransioli may not have aspired to celebrate the Machine Age, heavy industry, and skyscrapers in the same manner as Charles Sheeler, his compositions tap into the same rigid gridwork of the urban landscape that was first codified by the Precisionists.
During the 1950s, Fransioli was represented by the progressive Margaret Brown...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl with a Barn Owl
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Herbert Davidson (American, 1930-2018)
Signed: Herbert Davidson, (lower, right)
" Young Girl Seated on Stone Slab Holding a Barn Owl", circa 1970
...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Lightning II, Impressionist Oil Painting on Board by Lumen Martin Winter
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist Lumen Martin Winter. Winter's figurative paintings sometimes play with the edge of abstraction, resulting in an expressionistic feel. Thi...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Panache
Located in Burlingame, CA
Molesky’s latest body of work approaches art history with wit and irony. Drawing from classical themes and the heroic narrative, he subverts these traditions by casting the banana as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
"Guardian Angels" Original Oil Painting, Cemetery in Atlanta, GA
Located in Denver, CO
"Guardian Angels" by Diego Glazer is an original oil painting.
Artist Statement: Painted on location at a beautiful old cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia.
About the Artist:
For as long...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Marsh Cloud Colors, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Nancy Hughes Miller presents an impressionist prospect of tranquil wetlands. Vast sky views from the coast provide an endless source of inspiration for...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woods in September
Located in Columbia, MO
Nora Othic is considered one of the top regionalist painters in the Midwest. She builds on a legacy from her artistic predecessors such as Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton and the WPA ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Altarpiece: Good Omen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Altarpiece: Good Omen' - oil on canvas is 30 x 60 in, meticulously painted by American Realist Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
KALEIDOSCOPE: Buckeyes
Located in Burlingame, CA
Danza has a deep appreciation for the feelings of wonder and awe that come from being in nature. She tries to capture this experience with her immersive paintings, while also paying ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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