American Realist Paintings
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-19th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Paper, Gouache
Artist Comments
Artist Jo Galang says this piece was inspired by a lovely bouquet she received from her son and his girlfriend on Mother's Day. "It was so beautiful, and the ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
"Traveling in England's Cotswolds region, I sought out a number of impressive gardens designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown," shares artist Mandy Main. "This estate, Croome Court, has a colorful history, including its 1979 purchase by John Lennon for use as a Hare Krishna...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
1930s American Realist Paintings
Gouache, Pencil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Masonite, Tempera
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
A quiet riverside scene, with lush greens and leisurely moving water. Just above the treeline, billowing clouds linger before revealing a soft blue sky. "I fi...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Watercolor
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Paper, Oil Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Acrylic, Wood Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
1990s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s American Realist Paintings
Oil
1990s American Realist Paintings
Acrylic
2010s American Realist Paintings
Paper, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
Two Chinese vases lay on a background of different shades of gray in artist Guigen Zha's piece. The still life references cultural relics from the Song Dynast...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
1950s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil
1960s American Realist Paintings
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Watercolor, Gouache
1940s American Realist Paintings
Tempera
2010s American Realist Paintings
Paper, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
1930s American Realist Paintings
Watercolor
Artist Comments
A full moon rises in an indigo sky over artist Nancy Hughes Miller's impression of quiet marsh wetlands. The golden glow illuminates the drifting water and ne...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt displays an impressionist portrait of three brown pelicans. The birds sun themselves in the Sea of Cortez against a subtle greenish-blue late afternoon sky. "I hadn't thought about pelicans having a 3D vision like hawks until I was looking over my photos and saw one of the birds staring straight at me," shares Emil. He references his photographs from a National Geographic Zodiac that the pelicans seemed curious about, allowing very close viewing.
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 in the natural world. Before painting birds, he painted landscapes of San Francisco and the Eastern Sierra. Emil was raised in the high desert of California and learned to paint from his father, who was one of the early California watercolorists...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Paper, Tempera
2010s American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
1940s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Acrylic, Watercolor, Handmade Paper
1940s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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