American Realist Art

Tennessee Williams Vintage Mid 20th Century Broadway Theatre Gay Contemporary Roddy McDowall (British American, 1928-1998) "Tennessee Williams," Vinta...

This cartoon by Charles Addams is generations ahead of its time. To get the punch line, the viewer must know the meaning of a Satyr or Pan. Satyr: Part man and part beast. - A male ...

Antarctica #98 small is a limited edition photograph taken by John Conn in 2010. It is a 13x19 image, printed on 16x22 archival paper. It features two Icebergs. It is signed and ...

American Impressionist

My Fire Escape View 01 on Stanton Street, 1986 by Tria Giovan From a 35mm negative, scanned in 2020 Archival Pigment Print available in this size of 16" x 20" in an Edition of 12 w...

Warrington Colescott Music  Medicine and Sport- 1966 Print - etching  18'' x 17½'' inches Paper Size 30" x 22" inches Edition: signed in pencil, titled and numbered 2/30

Vintage American realist etching on paper by Chicago artist James Swann (1905 - 1985). It is hand signed in pencil by the artist. Framed. Measuring: 8 by 10 inches overall and 4 by 6...

Born in January of 1947, David Bareford began his study of art in high school in Warren, New Jersey under the instruction of Lawrence Von Beidel. By graduation in his senior year, D...

An oil painting of a tomato still life. On a neutral background sits a larger tomato and 6 smaller tomatoes still attached to a vine. The two groups are divided by a diagonal slash of branch. Painting dimensions: 6 x 13 inches Framed dimensions: 12 x 19 inches John Morfis was born in Bayville, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetically pleasing, John made an extreme departure from his family life when he chose to base his life on art. Surrounded by mechanics, welders, and otherwise trade workers John had a tough time expressing his interest in a world much more utilitarian and much less expressive and impractical. With an extraordinary desire to be an artist and a grant awarded, John was able to earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in painting from the University of Hartford in 1998. While there John studied oil painting under American realist Stephen Brown...

"Lush Sky" is a luminous cloud painting with a warm sunlit hue over clear blue indicating sunlight through clouds. created with a calm and etherial palette of natural blues, and gold...

Caped Skiers, Colorado, Estate Edition, Landscape Photograph This late 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skimaster Stein Eriksen lea...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Island of Yellow Flowers Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 32 x 40 inch...

Joseph Orr (b. 1949, Missouri) "Banker's Dream" Acrylic on Canvas Canvas: 9 x 12 Framed Size: approx 12 x 16 Joseph Orr, from Missouri, has been painting p...

Awards 2013 Loring W. Coleman Award for Watercolor/ Allied Artists of America, 100th Annual Exhibition at the National Arts Club 2011 Mary Bryan Memorial Medal / Allied Artis...

Howard Norton Cook: 1901-1980. Well, listed American artist best known for his printmaking. He studied at the art student league in New York City. He has his head auction results as ...

Horses Leaving the Barn Watercolor on paper, 1940 Signed and dated lower left corner (see photo) Condition: Excellent Image: 14 1/2 x 21” Frame: 25” x 31” Provenance; Associated American Artists, New York (see photo of label) Mamdouha and Elmer Holmes Bobst Displayed in an original wormy chestnut frame with OP3 Acrylic. Most probably from the AAA Dehn watercolor exhibition of 1940. Vintage original framing chosen by the artist. Note: Elmer Holmes Bobst (1884–1978) was an American businessman and philanthropist who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. His wife, Mamdouha, was also well known philanthropist. Bobst was born in Lititz, Pennsylvania. He aspired to become a doctor, but instead, he taught himself pharmacology. After his wife Ethel composed his interview letter, he became manager and treasurer of the Hoffman-LaRoche Chemical Works by 1920. When Bobst retired from the company in 1944, he was one of the nation's highest paid corporate executives. In 1945 he took charge of the ailing William Warner Company (later Warner–Lambert) and he remained board chairman until his retirement. Bobst had close connections to President Dwight Eisenhower, but was also a close friend of President Richard Nixon. Note: In 1940, the year of this watercolor, Dehn and Elizabeth Timmerman visited Waterville, MN on their way to Colorado Sprint, Colorado where Dehn was to teach lithography and watercolor. This watercolor is obviously a view of the area around Waterville. Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968 Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere—not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art. In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic “little magazines” such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art. If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques. Early Years, 1895-1922 For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...

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...

Born in San Pedro, California in 1969, Francis DiFronzo has been painting and exhibiting his artwork in the United States for more than thirty years. ...

A fine still life oil painting with flowers in vases by American artist Everett Lloyd Bryant (1864-1945). Bryant was raised in Galion, Ohio, and s...

Boats at sunset depicted in this calm and peaceful oil painting — Tamales Bay Evening — from American Realist Willard Dixon. The canvas is 17 x 50 inches...

John Stobart "St. Louis, Gateway to the West" Color Lithograph 30 x 42 inches framed Signed in Pencil and Numbered 434/750

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA -- We are creatures of habit. Routines help us organize our lives and provide necessary structure to daily existence. The same holds true in the built environment. The city grid...

Third Class Carriage (Down South), c. 1942 - 45, oil on canvas, 24 x 29 inches, labels verso read: "Painting by Mervin Honig [with address included]" and inscribed verso: "Title: Thi...

"Drugs" by Danny Heller draws inspiration from a pharmaceutical store on a busy avenue corner in NYC. See second image for the real life referenced location. My latest series openi...

An oil painting of a verdant, wooded area, painted en-plein air in Arkansas. An old, rusted, abandoned race-car, a BMW Triumph, is the focal point behind a time-honored stone wall. D...

The impressionist land and water scene from Brooks Anderson. This estuary scene of Marin captures you and takes you on a journey from stream to ocean. Artist signed, titled and dated...

The Saturday Evening Post cover, June 9, 1951 'John Clymer, while migrating through Wyoming in a motorcar, was amazed at the variety of birds that go there summers to keep house....

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...

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...

"Sea of Stripes: Pears" is a still life painting featuring hues of green, yellow, blue and white. Jordan Baker is inspired by the works of Rachel Ruysch...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Mooers writes of his work, “My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions...

This striking fine art painting captures the stillness of an empty public pool at twilight, its vibrant blue water contrasting with the muted tones of the surrounding concrete deck a...

This luminous New Hampshire White Mountain oil painting of Mount Chocorua at twilight was painted by contemporary American artist William R. Davis (195...

Original WWI "Another Notch Chateau Thierry – U.S. Marines" Linen-Backed Poster by Adolph Treidler, 1918. Archival linen-backed, Grade A condition, no flaws, ready to frame. Adol...

Unframed Dimensions: 26 x 44 inches Framed Dimensions: 31 1/2 x 49 1/4 inches signed lower right In his more than three decades as an artist, Nicholas Berger (b. 1949) has created ...

An oil painting of farm-fresh goods laid on a table with a plaid picnic-print tablecloth. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights. Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness. For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint. Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...

This atmospheric fine art painting presents an intimate indoor hot tub scene, where warm, ambient lamp light contrasts with the deep, glowing blue water of the spa, in the shape of a...

Original 1947 “This Time For Keeps” vintage American movie poster. NSS: 47/486. Archival linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. The original theater issued fold ...

Herbert Davidson (American, 1930-2018) Signed: Herbert Davidson, (lower, right) " Young Girl Seated on Stone Slab Holding a Barn Owl", circa 1970 Acrylic on canvas 26" x 36" Pe...

"Untitled" is a bronze sculpture by Bill Nebeker. Signed on reverse base "Bill Nebeker CA 6/30". The full size is 23 1/2 x 18 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches. Bill Nebeker is an American artist ...

Graceful depiction of seated nude female figure by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Joseph Yeager works directly from the estate. This piece is on heavy bond paper with ragged edges. No frame. Joseph "Joe" Yeager (American, 20th Century) was raised in Cleveland Ohio, where he went to art school at night and started his art career at 19. He was a commercial artist for the Cleveland Press...

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...

Donn DeVita: 1913-2010. Listed American artist who lived most of his career in East Dennis,Massachusetts on Cape Cod.This charming beach scene with a seal measures 30” x 20”. The fra...

"Laid Bare" is a landscape painting featuring hues of grey, green, blue and yellow. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale. Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --Mooers writes of his work, “My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions...

"Drawing with Water" is an interior watercolor painting featuring hues of blue, purple, green, red and orange. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale. Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...

Walker Evans Class A Steam Locomotive: The Second Set of Drivers, 1958 Inscribed "For Calvert from Walker" lower right Gelatin silver print 10 x 10 1/2 inches Provenance The artist ...

Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most artists have given up “eyeballing” a subject as a drawing technique and have come to rely on photographs instead. Turnaround time for photographs is now virtually instant because of digital cameras...

THOMAS HART BENTON (1890- 1975) HYMN SINGER / THE MINSTREL (Portrait of Burl Ives) 1950 (Fath 74) Lithograph signed with full signature “Thomas H. Benton” A large image, 15 ¾ x 12 i...

Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Man in Headband, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Studio stamp on verso. The print was us...

"Pastel Bust Of A Naked Young Woman Signed Fried Pal" Pál Fried (June 16, 1893 in Hungary - March 6, 1976 in New York) was a Hungarian artist known for his erotic paintings of dance...

"Aftermath Hurricane Laura" is a plein air landscape painting featuring hues of blue, green and brown. This work is oil on canvas paper, framed in a silver frame with mat measuring 23 by 25 inches. Kathryn Keller is inspired by the works of George Inness, Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi & Alexander Drysdale. Kathryn Keller is a painter based in New Orleans and Alexandria, Louisiana. She received a BA in Fine Art and English from the University of the South...

"The poor little bridesmaid ... in her pink cotton gown ... though doubtless, there never was such a pretty girl." A kitchen scene is depicted with a young bridesmaid admiring her f...

An oil painting of a landscape in Florida. The House of Refuge Museum showcases historic work from entrepreneurs and inventors. Bretzke captured it on ...

Etching with drypoint and aquatint on laid Japon paper, 9 x 11 1/4 inches (228 x 280 mm); sheet 11 7/8 x 13 5/8 (302 x 346 mm), full margins. Signed, titled and inscribed "To my dear...

Locomotive à Vapeur type 141P original vintage horizontal poster. Archival linen-backed in A- , B+ condition. Ready to frame. Printed on natural-toned dark cream paper. Printer: ...

Realistic still life painting of persimmons by Texas artist Drexel Caraway McNay (1910-1989). The work features a bowl overflowing with persimmons set against a dark background. Sign...

Realism as a style has basically remained unchanged since the Renaissance. Realism as a technique, however, has definitely been altered and heavily influenced by technology. Most art...

Original, linen-backed travel by Cunard Line cruise ship R.S.S. "Caronia" horizontal poster. This original poster is ready to frame. RMS Caronia ...