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Style: American Realist
"Oasis (Pool Opens in Three Days)" Contemporary Oil Painting, Hamilton Fish Pool
Located in New York, NY
This large scale painting by Linda Griggs features the community pool of Lower Manhattan's Hamilton Fish park. oil, wold wax and selective varnish on canvas) 48” x 48” (2025) signe...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Delayed
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Karen Woods paints a traveler’s view through the window of a moving vehicle rendered in subtly nuanced gestures in oil on canvas or panel. These views from the front seat of a car lo...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,300
Afternoon At The Glass House
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,104 Sale Price
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Still Life with Steel Beam
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Patterns III
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,040
Pink Flowers
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
$4,600
Pink Roses
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
$4,600
Best Friends
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
$5,000
Jade Roses
By Kevin Frank
Located in Fairfield, CT
Kevin Frank statement: For me, combining the techniques of the ancient Greco-Roman painters with those of the old and new masters help to create unique modern images. As with all enc...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Wood Panel
Humphrey
s Gouache
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Heller covers monumental and lesser-known works starting with Frank Lloyd Wright and tracing his design principles through his son Lloyd Wright, and students Richard Neutra, Rudolph ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ziggurat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Stop On The Drive Home
By Wes Hempel
Located in Fairfield, CT
A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Big Foam
Located in Fairfield, CT
Water does not have a form; it adapts to forms created by energy. There is something kind of futile yet exciting about capturing the effect of water in a painting. There is no start...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset, Waist Deep
Located in Fairfield, CT
Water does not have a form; it adapts to forms created by energy. There is something kind of futile yet exciting about capturing the effect of water in a painting. There is no start...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Made Redundant
By Ron Rizk
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$15,200
Dream House
By Ron Rizk
Located in Fairfield, CT
Ron Rizk’s paintings depict the intimate personal history of locales from his life. Ethereal and yet grounded in reality, the paintings tell the stories of very real places as seen ...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$15,200
Highway with Pale Sky
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
Karen Woods paints a traveler’s view through the window of a moving vehicle rendered in subtly nuanced gestures in oil on canvas or panel. These views from...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Odetta Holmes
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pilot
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
View Vall II
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Birch, Lacquer
Nearing Sunset, Summer
Located in Fairfield, CT
I have been burning images into wood and paper as a means of drawing for over two decades. During that time I have continued to refine and at the same time experiment with the process. Using propane torches I burn, scorch, re-burn, sand and scratch the surface of paper or wood to create my drawings.
My earlier work, the Nocturne Series was inspired by walking at night in the light filled streets of American cities; those drawings were often mistaken for soft focus sepia toned photographs. My present work is a considerable departure in regard to content, execution and appearance - from those dark, abstracted cityscapes, my current drawings are light filled, clearly rendered landscapes. The burning process I use to make my drawings evolved differently for each series. Experimentation (in both bodies of work) is always important to me and always informs the resulting image. In the case of the Nocturnes the image arose from intermixing water with the flame from a large industrial torch. With these new works, I’ve tried to create a visually stimulating accumulation of (often minuscule) marks on the wood surface using the tiny flame from a jeweler’s torch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Birch
Clothesline
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Iron Clad
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Showboat
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Eames Chair and Painting
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, “Birth of the Cool,” celebrates the midcentu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Converse Hi-Top Plaid
Located in Fairfield, CT
From the artist statement, "When asked about my work, my mantra used to be, “The subject matter of my work is not as important as how I paint it. Whether it be people, places, or thi...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arm
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Lamp Post
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Hells Gate
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
For the past dozen years or so I’ve focused on bridge elements by selecting portions of bridge structures and painting segments in a realist style. Previous shows at the Billis Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$11,200
Brooklyn Bridge Evening
By Roland Kulla
Located in Fairfield, CT
For the past dozen years or so I’ve focused on bridge elements by selecting portions of bridge structures and painting segments in a realist style. Previous shows at the Billis Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Smoke Screen
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Alex Roulette’s paintings depict false realities. The artist constructs landscapes from numerous source photographs, which he uses a...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Natural Body
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on the road, and 1960s West Coast art. His main subj...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mustard
Located in Fairfield, CT
Every painting begins with a place to stand. Sometimes I find one in seconds; sometimes the hunt goes on for many seasons. A canvas can easily frame the everyday. But my task is to t...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Placid Comeback
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, life on...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cruise #6
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,000
Cruise #5
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$4,000
Cruise #3
By Karen Woods
Located in Fairfield, CT
“I do think the big problem in a way…is how you deal with ordinary life—that is not extraordinary, that does not involve heroism, that does not involve crises, really. But the way in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$2,500
From the BQE, Framed
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
TWA Study, Framed
By Danny Heller
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NY & LA -- My latest series opening at the George Billis Gallery, titled “Modern Society,” continues my exploration into midcentury architecture and design found in New York City, but focuses on the cultural centers and glamorous institutions that signaled its strength – and enchantment – in the 1950s and 60s. Covering such bewitching landmarks as Lincoln Center, the Guggenheim, and 5th Avenue stalwart Bergdorf Goodman, this series delves into how high design from this groundbreaking Modern period shaped metropolitan society and reinforced New York as a cultural capital. When viewed individually, each painting showcases an aspect of booming avant garde design, be it the Metropolitan Opera’s Sputnik Chandeliers, the high fashion displayed...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
View from the Train, L.A. River
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --When asked what kind of paintings I make, I usually call my work "Urban Landscapes" to distinguish them as paintings about areas of h...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Yellow Grid
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC
LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,500
Sodium Vapors
By Trevor Young
Located in Fairfield, CT
Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC
LA -- Trevor Young is a quintessentially American painter. He makes no bones about his affection for the trappings of car culture, lif...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
By Robert Riggs
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel
"Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
Category
1940s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Yellow Calla Lily
Located in New York, NY
In his long and productive career, Clarence Holbrook Carter followed an independent course. He incorporated an unlikely mixture of stylistic influences, drawing from such disparate s...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Building Houses in Suburbia
Located in Miami, FL
ATT Ad from the mid 1980's
Category
1980s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
At the Cabin
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesueur, a 4-year program that adheres to the French academic tradition. He has exhibited numerous time...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Price Upon Request
Jimmy Carter, American Realist Oil Painting on Canvas by Malcolm Parle
By Malcolm Parle
Located in Long Island City, NY
A portrait of Jimmy Carter, painted in oil sometime before he took office as the 39th President of the United States. He is sitting in a chair with a handful of documents in his hand...
Category
1970s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Copacabana
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Mixed media by Nemo Jantzen. Handmade resin domes on board. Introducing a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, where music, memory, and art collide. High-Quality Craftsmanship. This is more th...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin
Price Upon Request
Hotel Hassler Roma
Located in Greenwich, CT
This painting depicts the Hotel Hassler, in Rome, Italy.
Paul G. Oxborough, American, b. 1965
Paul G. Oxborough studied at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Atelier Lesueur...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Price Upon Request
Red Museum
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paul G. Oxborough's mastery as a painter has been firmly established over a decades-long career. His ability to render light in a room has been compared to the work of Velázquez; the...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Price Upon Request
Les Deux Palais
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paul G. Oxborough's mastery as a painter has been firmly established over a decades-long career. His ability to render light in a room has been compared to the work of Velázquez; the...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Price Upon Request
After Dinner
Located in Greenwich, CT
Paul G. Oxborough's mastery as a painter has been firmly established over a decades-long career. His ability to render light in a room has been compared to the work of Velázquez; the...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
"Mountain Landscape with Cowboy" Stream Forest Horses Grass Snow Capped Peaks
Located in Austin, TX
A cowboy and two grazing horses stand in a grassy field near a flowing river. In the background mountains tower over the scene with tall evergreen trees.
8" x 12" Watercolor on Pape...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
"Shipyard" Realist Industrial Landscape
By Robert Lavin
Located in Austin, TX
This painting is a 20th century realist landscape depiction of a shipyard by Robert Lavin. The piece is executed in oil on board and measures 10" x 24".
Robert Lavin was born in New York City. His education included Townsend Harris, a prep school in New York followed by college at City College of New York. He also attended the National Academy of Art, where he studied as a painter. Studying the social realists of the 1930’s, Lavin, a former Marine pilot, portrayed steelworkers, roughnecks and trainmen. Lavin often painted his “proletarian ballets”- as one critic called them – to illustrate magazine advertisements.
The Smithsonian Institution and other museums collected Lavin’s original paintings, which portrayed the laboring subjects with dignity and integrity. Lavin also illustrated stock certificates and books. Paper Money magazine praised him as “one of the greatest vignette artists of the 20th century.” In addition to this, Lavin was for a number of years an Associate Professor of Art at City College of New York, a position he left in the mid ‘60’s in order to devote himself full time to his painting. His commissions took him around the world, from the North Sea to the coast of Africa, from the slopes of Alaska to the Sea of Japan. As part of a series for Gulf Oil, he painted the royal family of England for the opening of a new refinery in Wales. Another portrait of one of the early Americanastronauts, appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. Other major commissions during these years included Readers Digest books...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Price Upon Request
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 ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Bottoms Up
By Nemo Jantzen
Located in Singapore, SG
Handmade resin domes on board with unparalleled craftsmanship by Nemo Jantzen. Every inch of this piece is crafted by hand, with careful attention to detail. "Bottom's Up" is a stunn...
Category
2010s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Epoxy Resin, Photographic Film
Price Upon Request
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...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Price Upon Request
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...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
Sunflowers
Located in Missouri, MO
Sunflowers by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993), Signed on Back
Signed and Dated Middle Left
Unframed: 24" x 14"
Framed: 30.5" x 20.5"
Frame was hand made by the artist.
A local Califor...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
Chimney Pots and Roof of Paris
Located in Missouri, MO
Chimney Pots and Roof of Paris by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993)
Signed and Dated Lower Left
Unframed: 24" x 28"
Framed: 34" x 37"
Frame was hand made by the artist.
A local Californ...
Category
20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Price Upon Request
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