American Realist Art

'Cortina D'Ampezzo' by Slim Aarons Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982. Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with ...

Francine Brandt by a swimming pool in Acapulco, Mexico, January 1961. Slim Aarons Francine Brandt Chromogenic Lambda print Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping t...

Working Man WPA Social Realism Industrial Modernism 20th Century American Scene Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Printing Press 40 ½ x 26 inches (sight) Oil o...

This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Contemporary figurative painter Andrew S. Conklin creates a co...

An oil painting of sun rays peeking through a clouded sky at one of the Great Lakes. 28.8 x 41 inches, framed American realist painter Carl Bretzke is particularly adept at noctur...

Bruce Kurland – Still Life with Decoy and Shells Oil on board, framed in antique gold leaf A master of intimacy and restraint, Bruce Kurland’s Still Life with Decoy and Shells is a ...

Chris Forrest, American (1946 - ) - Luna (Racoon), Year: circa 1979, Medium: Lithograph, Signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 300, AP 40, Image Size: 18 x 22 inches, Size: 22...

Artist: Will Barnet, American (1911 - 2012) Title: Dawn Year: 1975 Medium: Lithograph on Arches, signed in pencil Edition: 59/175 Image Size: 24 x 11 in. Frame Size: 36 x 25 inches ...

John McNulty, Irish/American (1949 - ) - Jardins de Luxembourg, Year: 1984, Medium: Etching with Aquatint, signed and titled in pencil, Edition: 175, Size: 22 x 28 in. (55.88 x 7...

Stunning large scale painting of an early 20th century Braque sailing ship named "Medusa" by Charles Miller (American, 19th/20th Century), 1926. Signed and dated lower left corner. C...

Labyrinth by McKenzie West is a striking oil painting that explores the interplay between history, identity, and reflection. Rendered with meticulous realism, the work depicts an ornate vintage hand mirror...

This artwork titled "Springtime in the North" c.1980, published 1996, is a color offset lithograph by renown western artist Arnold Friberg, 1913-2010. I...

Mel Hunter, American (1927 - 2004) - Standardbred, Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 500, Size: 22 in. x 29.5 in. (55.88 cm x 74.93 cm)

This artwork titled "Union Street, San Francisco" is an original etching on creme wove paper by American artist Edith (Mark) Milsk, 1899-1982. It is hand signed and titled in pencil by the artist. The plate mark (Image) size is 5.5 x 3.65 inches, framed size is 16.5 x 13.40 inches. Custom framed in a red Oak frame, with beige matting. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Edith Milsk...

Original Painting Undersea Whale Life Mag Published 1953 Illustration Ocean Sea Antonio Petruccelli (1907 – 1994) Underwater Whale Life Illustration published, c. November 7, 1953 1...

Earth, air, water, and fire are the center subjects of my art. I live in New York City-it is close to the ocean, and I’ve developed a deep affinity for the sea, which has also evoked...

Fighter Boxing Woodstock American Scene WPA Era Mid 20th Century Social John Ruggles (1907-1991) Sight: 17 1/2 x 13 1/3 inches. Framed: 22 x 18 inches...

Beautiful watercolor, pen and ink floral study of light pink begonias blending into line drawing, with brilliant attention to detail and a signature delicate style, by California art...

Brightly colored and bold painting of an American hunting scene featuring two hunters and Canadian Geese. The bold, bright blues and yellows o...

The Pin-Up of ravishing young beauties in mid-century America was a widely popular art form. The assumption that Pin-Up art was the exclusive domain of men is a misnomer. Female illu...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Pink and Yellow Irises Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 2...

A modern realist painting by American artist Will Barnet from the artist series of works created to accompany the poetry of Emily Dickinson. rom Bever...

This is a wonderful vintage Air France travel poster depicting a vibrant Parisian street scene from the late 1950s or early 1960s. The image centers on a classic Morris column (adver...

Black and white landscape photograph of a Monterey pine tree partially silhouetted against a cloudy sky, by possibly Jim Deike (American, 20th Century). Signed illegibly lower right....

The danger of American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, City Peril (1958), where he depicts a moment in the city where a woman is targeted while walking. An accomplish...

This restrained profile, rendered in subdued purples and dusty violets, evokes the stoic silence of the lone gunman archetype. With face partly turned away and hidden beneath a wide-...

1965: Dolores Guinness catches the sun's last rays in Costa Smeralda, Sardinia. Slim Aarons Dolores Guinness Costa Smeralda, Sardinia Chromogenic Lambda print Printed Later Slim Aarons Estate Edition Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $2500 Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer. Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Dolores Guinness (31 July 1936 – 20 January 2012), was a German born "Freiin" (Baroness), socialite, fashion icon and jet set member of the 1950s and 1960s. She has been a member of the International Best Dressed List since 1970. Her mother was the famous Mexican-born socialite Gloria Guinness. Dolores was often seen in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Town and Country and Life magazine dressed in designer clothes from Givenchy, Christian Dior, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga during the 1950s and 1960s, photographed by Cecil Beaton, Bert Stern, Henry Clarke, Mark Shaw (photographer), Richard Avedon and William Klein. She often appeared on the International Best Dressed List during these years. The Costa Smeralda (lit. 'Emerald Coast...

American stage actress, author, columnist, horsewoman, fashion designer, and socialite, C. Z. Guest, ( aka Mrs. Winston F. C. Guest, 1920 - 2003) with her personalized Ford Model T t...

Study of a sultry and seductive reclining platinum blond Pin Up with a wide-brimmed sun hat. Most likely done for Playboy. This work is very finely rendered and looks better the ...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Two Yellow Irises on Sage II Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edit...

Noel Daggett, American (1925 - 2005) - Shattered Silence, Year: Circa 1980, Medium: Etching with Chine Colle, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 8/40, Size: 22 x 29 in. (55...

Anthurium Still Life Oil on Canvas 40″ x 30″ framed by Texas artist Julie England Look for free shipping at checkout Anthurium Still Life was inspired by the idea of abstract ...

American life is captured in this Clyde Singer painting, Red Coat, where he depicts a woman walking down the street towards her destination in 1956. An accomplished American Scene pa...

Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988) Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943 Watercolor on paper Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.” Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo. After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.” In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality. A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...

St, Louis River Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century WPA Jo Cain (1904-2003) The Drama of the St. Louis Great River 23 1/4 x 25 ½ inches Gouache on board c. 19...

Richard Thomas Scott is inspired by the work of Rembrandt, Andrew Wyeth, and Vermeer. Born in Conyers, Georgia, and now living in Hudson, New Yor...

The painting features a 3/4 bust portrait of a refined lady from the Verplanck family of Orange County, New York. The painting shows a young woman seated for her portrait in a fine b...

Mystery monogrammed early San Francisco etching. Great little piece of San Francisco history showing a lighthouse in Golden Gate. Etching measure...

"Grapefruit and Strawberries" is a classical realist still life of fruit. Signed bottom right corner Framed Dimensions: 19.25 x 19.25 inches Steven J. Levin - (b. 1964) is classica...

"Mediterranean Memories" captures a seaside pool with glowing water reflections and is a quintessential example of Tom Swimm's enhanced realism. This colorful oil painting exhibits a...

An oil painting by Long Island painter, Doug Reina. A composition portraying the iconic bowling alley in Port Jefferson adorned with a giant white bowling pin, retro aesthetic, and d...

An oil painting by Lowell Nesbitt from 1973. A very large scale, hyper-realist painting of a rose in black background. Artist: Lowell Blair Nesb...

Further Lane (East Hampton) Photographic Print Can come printed in different sizes & formats (metal, acrylic. etc) About the Artist: Short Biography in ...

Henriette Wyeth-Hurd Hand signed, Collotype, Limited Edition of 490 Image Size: 20" x 26" framed 28.5 X 34.5 Provenance: printed at Triton Press and has their certificate of authenticity verso. Henriette Wyeth Hurd (1907 – 1997) was an American artist noted for her portraits and still life paintings. The eldest daughter of illustrator N.C. Wyeth, she studied painting with her father and brother Andrew Wyeth at their home and studio in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. Henrietta Wyeth was born in Wilmington, Delaware, into an artistic family. Wyeth was the eldest of the five children of noted illustrator N.C. Wyeth and his wife Carolyn Bockius. Her siblings Carolyn and Andrew also became artists, and all three studied with their father. Andrew Wyeth became the most well-known artist of this family. Henriette contracted polio at age 3, which altered her health and use of her right hand. As a result, she learned to draw with her left hand and paint with her right. She grew up on the family farm in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and attended local Quaker schools. She and her siblings were eventually homeschooled because their father distrusted the public school system. She began formal art lessons with her father at age 11, making charcoal studies and geometric shapes. A child prodigy, at age 13 Wyeth was enrolled in the Normal Arts School in Boston, Massachusetts. The next year, in 1921, she entered the Boston Museum of Art Academy. Two years later she moved to Philadelphia to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. By age 16, she was well known as a portraitist and received commissions for paintings of Wilmington residents. Deeply influenced by her father's unique realistic style, she rejected early 20th-century painting styles such as Impressionism and Cubism. She was also socially and politically conservative. As a result, later in life she rejected the progressive movements of the 1960s and 1970s, including the women's movement. She often criticized television and modern culture. At age 21, in 1929 Wyeth married artist Peter Hurd, a fellow student at the Pennsylvania Academy and her father's apprentice. The couple had three children together: Peter Jr., Carolyn, and Michael Hurd...

The 21st Floor-A View of the World Trade Center in the Skyline Screen print, c. 1990 Signed: Joni Frankel lower left Edition 200 (42/200) Signed lower lef...

Artist: Florence Hasenflug, American (1914 - 2010) Title: Pink Flower Blossoms Year: circa 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. and verso Size: 44 x 66 in. (111.76 x 167.64 cm) Fr...

Artist: Bernard Locca, French (1926 - 1997) Title: Portrait of a Blonde Beauty Year: 1963 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 36 in. x 29 in. (91.44 cm x 73.66 cm) Frame Size: 4...

This still life of Plums is a top notch example of 19th century still life painting! Beautiful quality and striking but also spare and honest in nature which is what typified Americ...

Frio River depicts one of Texas' most popular landscapes in the style of Realist painting. The artist use the natural beauty of Texas as scenes for his Realist paintings. The artist...

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...

Hidden Pond Lithograph, 1958 Signed in pencil lower right of image Annotated: Ed/40 in pencil by the artist lower left Edition: 40 Provenance: Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH (acc...

"Great Lakes South Shore" is an oil painting of a sunset over a harbor in Minnesota. Painted en plein air by Midwest realist painter Carl Bretzke. Framed. Signed "C.Bretzke" lower left Carl Bretzke is a representational painter who specializes in urban scenes, nocturnes, and plein-air landscapes. He is a member of the Plein Air Painters of America since 2021. Carl's work has been exhibited extensively in Minnesota and California, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Carl's work has been described in the Washington Post as "simultaneously intimate and detached…The artist's unadorned style recalls Edward Hopper and The Ashcan school." Carl holds an MD degree from the University of...

Humphris is a highly acclaimed American sculptor and created a large body of work of Western subject matter, particularly of the American Indian so rare to get a soldier. He did liv...

Original Painting. New Yorker Magazine Published 1935 American Scene Modern WPA Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994) Movers New Yorker published, September 20, 1935 18 X 11 1/2 inches...

Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century "Late Afternoon, Columbus Avenue, New York", impasto oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed verso (under relining, shown in photo), and titled verso on stretcher, in maple mitered cove frame, 23 1/4" x 27 1/4", SS: 19 1/4" x 23 1/4", Relined. BIO Russian-born Gussow trained at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He also studied under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His first claim to fame was exhibiting two works at the Armory Show in 1913. Gussow exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1934 and at Salons of America in the 1930s. The Whitney Museum of American Art, for example, has his Subway Stairs. The Barnes Foundation...

An oil painting of a cloud filled sky at sunset. The foreground is set along a sandy beach, white sand meeting dunes, tire tracks in the sand lead our eye to a pair of figures, seate...

Unframed Dimensions: 10 x 12 inches Framed Dimensions: 14 x 16 inches

Snow Geese (Wyoming) Drypoint, c. 1947 Signed in pencil lower right (see photo) Title in pencil lower left (see photo) Note: This image is reprodcued in a Photogravure for Ducks Unlimited in 1947. This is the first original drypoint version. Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 8 3/8 x 6 7/8 inches Reference: Archives West #101 Kleiber 134 Hans Kleiber (1887-1967) Hans Norbert Kleiber, painter, etcher, illustrator, and naturalist, was born in Cologne, Germany on August 24, 1887. He emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1900, settling in Massachusetts before moving to Wyoming. Kleiber first worked in lumber camps before working for the United States Forest Service from 1906 until 1924. One of his duties as a ranger was to monitor the logging camps in the Bighorn Mountains. Kleiber was primarily self-taught as an artist and it was in the 1920s that he began devoting himself to art. It appears that he first began to work in watercolor and oil but was producing etchings and drypoints as early as 1924. He traversed the mountains of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho, and his subjects are drawn from the pristine landscapes and wildlife. Kleiber's first exhibition of his etchings was mounted in 1928 at Goodspeed's Book Shop in Boston. His etching, Crossing the Platte, was included in the 1939 New York World's Fair exhibition, American Art Today. There was an exhibition of fifty of his etchings at the National Museum in 1944, and an exhibition of his watercolors was mounted at the Grand Central Galleries in New York in 1950. Kleiber was a member of the Society of American Etchers and the California Society of Printmakers. He received a silver medal in 1931 from the Printmakers Society of California for his print, Leaving the High Country...

This late 1950s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Countess Peter Jean-Baptiste de Manio (left) and Mary-Beth Turner playing backgammon by a ...

Arne Charles Besser (1935-2012) was a Mid-Century Gay American Realist Painter whose work showed in galleries throughout Europe and North America. This 1970s painting showcases Besser's ability to capture the intricacies of human and animal figures, with the musculature of the horse and nude...