American Realist Paintings
1960s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Gesso, Paint, Varnish, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Board
1950s American Realist Paintings
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 19th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
Artist Heather Foster encountered this inquisitive subject while painting en plein air. "This nosy California girl wanted to be front and center to see what t...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Acrylic
1930s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Linen, 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
Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil
1950s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s American Realist Paintings
Birch, Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
In his distinct realism style, artist Guigen Zha displays a black horse drinking water from a tranquil lily pond. Part of ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
Early 2000s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt captures a sanderling scurrying along the edge of incoming surf. "In a second, he'll turn around and follow ...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Acrylic
1940s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Late 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1920s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Artist Emil Morhardt depicts an Elegant Tern and a Forster’s Tern hanging together in the winter shallows of the Santa Barbara beach in California. Their evening reflections ripple above the water highlighted in gold, silver, and copper leaf. "While the Elegant Terns show up in huge flocks, the much smaller Forester’s tern is uncommon in Santa Barbara, and so a treat to see."
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
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Linen, Oil
1930s American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
A soft burst of pastels paints the evening sky in this delightful seascape by artist Gail Greene. "A setting sun creates a mystic feeling of enchantment," sha...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"Togetherness is a wonderful place to be, and what better reflects a bond of love," says artist Jeff Fleming. He displays a touching portrait of a golden retriever mom affectionately posing with her puppy. Jeff begins with a pencil sketch and applies paint with his fingers, brushes, and string. He drizzles paint in random strokes to create an energetic composition brimming with splashes of color.
About the Artist
Artist Jeff Fleming uses fingerpainting to create exuberant portraits of dogs. Growing up in Southern California, Jeff was first introduced to fingerpainting in kindergarten. He painted through high school and college and won several art awards, including Best of Show in a city wide student competition. After graduating with a degree in journalism and advertising, he went to work as an art director. For the next 40 years, he created print, radio and television ads for a number of top agencies. "After retiring in 2019, the clouds of stress and pressure cleared and allowed me to set my creative energy free," says Jeff. He began developing new techniques focused on the excitement and energy of painting. Today, he uses a variety of methods and tools, including fingerpainting wearing nitrile gloves...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1980s American Realist Paintings
Masonite, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
Artist Kent Sullivan expresses a marshland drenched in a warm sunset. "In the Evening crickets start to chirp and the glow of lat...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
"The shadow of evening flows over a sandy beach and pauses before scaling the cliffs to meet the moon over Santa Monica's waterfront," shares artist Jesse Ald...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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