American Realist Art
1940s American Realist Art
Offset
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Lithograph
2010s American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
Artist Comments
Artist Guigen Zha pictures a lotus flower in realistic detail. The red mountain beyond renders a crimson glow on the soft green peta...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
2010s American Realist Art
Oil
1930s American Realist Art
Oil
1980s American Realist Art
Paper, Pastel
Artist Comments
"As foggy headlands shift shape on the horizon, redwoods materialize out of a palette of grays and blues in this painting of California's Big Sur," says artis...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
2010s American Realist Art
Oil, Canvas
2010s American Realist Art
Oil, Wood Panel
2010s American Realist Art
Mixed Media, Panel
Artist Comments
"My wife and I were invited on a tour of a very large ranch," shares artist Dwight Smith. "Of course, there were many outbuildings, sheds, and barns that were...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor
1970s American Realist Art
Screen
2010s American Realist Art
Oil
1960s American Realist Art
Oil
2010s American Realist Art
Panel, Mixed Media
1950s American Realist Art
Lambda
2010s American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor, Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
Early 1900s American Realist Art
Lithograph, Ink
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor, Archival Paper
1930s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1980s American Realist Art
Lithograph
Artist Comments
Artist Dwight Smith paints a realistic still life with a touch of surrealist composition. "I grew up in Maryland and autumn or harvest time was my favorite ti...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor
2010s American Realist Art
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Realist Art
Casein, Panel
2010s American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Art
Screen
Late 19th Century American Realist Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Mezzotint
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Lithograph
1930s American Realist Art
Drypoint
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Lithograph
1940s American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
2010s American Realist Art
Ink
Artist Comments
In this hyperrealistic painting, David depicts a model holding plastic to her face. The work is meant as a commentary on global warming and a need to plan fo...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
2010s American Realist Art
Oil
1970s American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
Artist Comments
Part of Onelio's ongoing series centered around people occupied in various simple tasks. This painting depicts a butcher at work in his shop - it could be a s...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Lambda
Artist Comments
An earthenware teapot and a piece of Unagi sushi rest on a warm wood table, balanced against a soft gray backdrop. A wash of su...
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Canvas, Oil
1980s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1980s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1970s American Realist Art
Lithograph
1980s American Realist Art
Screen
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Etching
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Paper, Watercolor
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 Art
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art
Oil, Panel
Late 20th Century American Realist Art
Paper, Watercolor
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 Art
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Watercolor, Paper




