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Style: American Realist
Spotted Leopard and Iris, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil. Title: Spotted Leopard and Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and num...
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1980s American Realist Art

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Screen

Terra
Located in Columbia, MO
Zoe Hawk Artist Statement My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scen...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil

The Emperor
Located in Columbia, MO
Zoe Hawk Artist Statement My work deals with the complex experience of girlhood, exploring adolescent anxiety, feminine identity, and belonging. These themes are tackled within scen...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil

The Sentry's Vigil, Framed Oil Painting by Stanley Borack
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Stanley Borack, American (1927 - ) Title: The Sentry's Vigil Year: 1977 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated l.r. Size: 22 x 27 inches Frame: 33 x 37 inches
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1970s American Realist Art

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Oil

A Winter Bouquet
Located in Wenham, MA
An original oil painting by GC Williams. Known for her still life and flower paintings, this little still life of flowers in a silver cup is framed in a b...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Panel

Original "You Can Lick Runaway Prices, You Hol The 7 Kesys to Hold Down Prices"
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WWII poster: YOU CAN LICK RUNAWAY PRICES ORIGINAL VINTAGE WWII POSTER BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG Distributed originally by OWI for the Office of Economic Stabilization. 1. Buy and hold War Bonds. 2. Pay willingly our share of taxes. 3. Provide adequate life insurance and savings for our future. 4. Reduce our debts as much as possible. 5. Buy only what we need and make what we have last longer. 6. Follow ration rules and price ceilings. 7. Cooperate with our Government's wage stabilization program. Publisher: [S. l.]: Distributed by O.W.I. for the Office of Economic Stabilization. Linen backed fine condition. Restored original Government fold marks (on all World War 2 American vintage posters) James Montgomery Flagg is best known for depicting Uncle Sam in recruitment and public service announcement posters of both World War I and II. You Can Lick Runaway Prices? Features a new painting created by Flagg in c.1942. The poster emphasizes seven steps that the average American could take to prevent inflation. Among these points include significant themes of buying war bonds, conservation, and food rationing. The seven steps correspond to the seven letters that spell Victory. The imagery references Flagg's iconic I Want You poster...
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1940s American Realist Art

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Offset

Sunday Morning
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Sunday Morning. Title: Sunday Morning Artist: Dox Thrash (American, Griffin, Georgia 1893–1965 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Printer: Sam J. Brown (1901-1994). Date: ca. 1939. Medium: Drypoint Dimensions: sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 27 cm) plate: 8 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (22.5 x 20 cm) This is the most heavily inked, atmospheric example known to exist. Unique, unsigned example from the collection of artist Samuel J. Brown. Dox Thrash (1893–1965) was an African-American artist who was famed as a skilled draftsman, master printmaker, and painter and as the co-inventor of the Carborundum printmaking process.[1] The subject of his artwork was African American life. He served as a printmaker with the W.P.A. at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia. The artist spent much of his career living and working in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Early life Dox Thrash was born on March 22, 1893, in Griffin, Georgia.[2] He was the second of four children in his family. Thrash left home at the age of fifteen in search of work up north. He was part of the Great Migration (African American) looking for industrial work in the North. The first job that Thrash got was working with a circus and a Vaudeville act. In 1911, at the age of 18, he moved to Chicago, Illinois.[3] He got a job as an elevator operator during the day, and used this source of income to attend school.[3] In 1914 he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.[1] In 1917, the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. In September 1917, at the age of twenty-four, Thrash enlisted in the army.[3] He was placed in the 365th Infantry Regiment, 183rd Brigade, 92nd Division, also known as the Buffalo Soldiers.[1] During combat, Thrash suffered shell shock and a gas attack, but was not permanently injured. Career as an artist Front cover of Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, by John Ittmann. After having served in the war, Thrash qualified as a war veteran and enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago with the support of federal funding.[3] After finishing his education, he traveled intermittently from Georgia to Chicago, Boston, New York, and finally Philadelphia, working odd jobs - experiences that provided him with subject matter to later paint. Settling in Philadelphia by 1925, he took a job working as a janitor. In his free time, he continued his art career and used his talent to create emblems, such as the one for the North Philadelphia Businessmen's Association, and posters in exhibitions and festivals, including the 2nd Annual National Negro Music Festival and the Tra Club of Philadelphia.[1] This gained him local recognition and opened doors for new artistic endeavors. By 1929, Thrash was attending nightly classes within these clubs, namely with Earl Horter of the Graphic Sketch Club, now known as the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial.[3] In 1937 Thrash joined the government-sponsored Works Progress Administration (WPA)'s Federal Art Project.[4] Through the WPA, Thrash began working at the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia.[5] At the Fine Print Workshop of Philadelphia, Thrash, along with Michael J. Gallagher and Hugh Mesibov, began experimenting and co-inventing the process of carborundum mezzotint, a printmaking technique.[1] Carborundum printmaking uses a carbon-based abrasive to burnish copper plates creating an image that can produce a print in tones ranging from pale gray to deep black. The method is similar to the more difficult and complicated mezzotint process developed in the 17th century. He used this as his primary medium for much of his career and created his greatest works with it. One of his first pieces employing this nascent technique was his anonymous self-portrait entitled Mr. X. With this new technique, the three gained increasing recognition as they published more and more graphics within newspapers and featured more and more pieces within exhibitions. Their works often featured subtle commentaries about social and economic exploitation regarding the contemporary politics of the Great Depression and the Second World War. By 1940, Thrash, Gallagher, and Mesibov all began to gain attention in local circles for their carborundum prints, although the role that each artist played in the development of the process was left unclear.[6] In 1960, Thrash participated in a show at the Pyramid Club, a social organization of Black professional men that held an annual art exhibit starting in 1941. Others on hand were Howard N. Watson, Benjamin Britt, Robert Jefferson and Samuel J. Brown Jr. Thrash spent the later years of his life mentoring young African American artists. He died on April 19, 1965, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2] He was posthumously honored almost 40 years later in 2001 with a major retrospective, titled Dox Thrash: An African-American Master Printmaker Rediscovered, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.[7] Thrash's work was included in the 2015 exhibition We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s at the Woodmere Art Museum.[8] Relation to Alain Locke and the New Negro Movement This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2022) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) Alain LeRoy Locke (1885-1954) was an intellectual, professor and author who espoused that African Americans, specifically artists, to capture the personality, lives, and essence of their people in The New Negro. He explained “The Negro physiognomy must be freshly and objectively conceived on its own patterns if it is ever to be seriously and importantly interpreted. Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have overlaid.”[9] What Locke is expressing here is not only the call for black artists to overcome racial prejudices via positive artistic representations of blacks, but that the actual African American individual like Thrash portrayed the lives of fellow blacks, and had the power to propagate this idea of the New Negro, as Locke explains, “There is the possibility that the sensitive artistic mind of the American Negro, stimulated by a cultural pride and interest, will receive…a profound and galvanizing influence.”[10] In his shadowy carborundum mezzotint Cabin Days, Thrash depicts a southern black family on the porch of their shack-like home in a rural landscape. The man, woman, and child, clutched tenderly to the female figure's breast, create an intimate scene highlighted by the bright cleanliness of the laundry hanging behind them. Placed in front of the drying laundry, they are framed by one aspect of the hard work accomplished during the day. Close to one another, staring collectively outward at the Southern landscape, they, and their laudable priorities of cleanliness and family, are made the bright focal point in the poor, unstable atmosphere. Such inner warmth is seemingly incompatible with the family's crooked and disheveled surroundings, and their fuzzy appearance with a lack of facial detail makes the scene into a general archetype for rural southern blacks living conditions and qualities. Thrash was referencing an experience common to thousands of black families in rural occupations at the turn of the 20th century, often forced into slavery-like tenant farming as their only means of livelihood in the racist South. The “uneven clapboards, leaning porch, broken shutter, and uprooted fence” are rife with instability, much like the post-slavery economic and social systems of the South, making it clear that for African Americans, “the house is not the home; rather, the figures on the porch represent family unity and continuity”.[10] In this way, Thrash is able to not only champion the positive qualities of blacks in the family setting but underscore this with a symbolic look at their disadvantaged situation, making it all the more impressive that they persevere. Thrash symbolically depicted harsh realities for the African American at this transitional point in history while conferring a sensitive rendering of their humanity, akin to any other race, despite its utter denial by American society. Through softer tempera washes like A New Day, he literally and figuratively paints a picture of a black family transitioning from the South to the North during the Great Migration, making a hopeful, daring leap to attempt to be equal members of the society that has historically oppressed them. On the left side of the canvas lie muddled farm houses and plow handles, embodiments of their rural life of tedious hard labor behind them, fading to gray. Their hopeful gazes “…convey the optimism of the scores of African Americans who left the countryside to pursue better job opportunities, health care, and education in urban centers”.[6] The stance of the figures, with their chins raised in a dignified gesture towards cityscape ahead suggest a confidence and ambitiousness in their collective futures in this new northern industrial terrain. Even the child, clutched securely in the arm of the mother figure against her breast is not only serenely grinning, but calm enough to appear to gently doze, confident in that the journey ahead will result positively, poses no threat. The exposed arm of the woman is notable as well, being unusually thick and muscular, along with the general proportions of the kneeling father, who position on the ground appears not pleading but rather in a slightly exhausted, but upright gratefulness for the promise ahead. Thrash makes it clear that this family has traveled a long way, but is not depleted; rather they are strong and preparing for further hard work and hopeful success ahead. They are the quintessence of the New Negro, in that they are not only journeying forward to seize previously unobtainable opportunities that will enhance their lives, but the manner with which they hold themselves provokes a certain level of warranted respect for their humanity, from the viewer. In fact it was the strength of his fellow African Americans that Thrash often emphasized, amongst other positive characteristics in the face of adversity in personal portraits. Through his carborundum print Life, he depicts a neatly dressed black girl reading...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Etching

Tug Boats
Located in West Hollywood, CA
One of the rarest paintings from American artist Ron Blumbergs New York series, "Tug Boats", has just arrived. Ron Blumberg was classically trained at La G...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Oil

A Garden in Kent
Located in Wenham, MA
A beautiful oil painting on linen panel by master artist Donald Jurney. This piece is painted on a hand-crafted linen-over-archival board panel with a notch in the back for hanging...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Panel

Near Neuvy St. Sepulchre
Located in Wenham, MA
A beautiful oil painting on linen panel by master artist Donald Jurney. For additional photos please contact us and we are happy to oblige! This piece is painted on a hand-crafted l...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Panel

Flaxen Hair
Located in New York, NY
Shelly (Sheldon) Fink (American, 1925-2002), "Flaxen Hair" Edition of 150, Lithograph signed on Paper, 14 x 17, Late 20th Century, 1960s Depicts a female nude with flaxen hair sittin...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Altarpiece: Good Omen
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Altarpiece: Good Omen' - oil on canvas is 30 x 60 in, meticulously painted by American Realist Brooks Anderson. Canvas edges are painted dark in artist's signature style. Lovely to ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Canvas

A Passing Storm
Located in Wenham, MA
A beautiful oil painting on linen by master artist Donald Jurney. This piece is painted on a hand-crafted linen-over-archival board panel with a notch in the back for hanging. It d...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Panel

Original "For Your Boy, YMCA, vintage WW1 1918 poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original. YMCA for Your Boy. Acid-free original vintage poster in excellent condition with archival linen backing, ready to frame. Certificate o...
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1910s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

Girl in Ballerina Dress (Thonet Chair) Color Lithograph, American Modernist
Located in Surfside, FL
Girl in Ballerina Dress, c. 1970 Color lithograph printed on wove paper, hand signed in pencil and numbered 22/75, with the inkstamp of the publisher, Landfall Press, Chicago (they have published an eclectic list of many important artists including Christo, Judy Chicago, David Levinthal and Jack tworkov to name a few.) Philip Pearlstein is an influential American painter best known for Modernist Realism nudes. Cited by critics as the preeminent figure painter of the 1960s to 2000s, he led a revival in realist art. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus with paintings in the collections of over 70 public art museums. Philip M. Pearlstein was born on May 24, 1924 in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Saturday morning classes at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum of Art. In 1942, at the age of 18, two of his paintings won a national competition sponsored by Scholastic Magazine, and were reproduced in color in Life magazine. In 1942, he enrolled at Carnegie Institute of Technology's art school, in Pittsburgh, where he painted two portraits of his parents now held by the Carnegie Museum of Art, but after one year he was drafted by the US Army to serve during World War II. He was initially assigned to the Training Aids Unit at Camp Blanding, Florida, where he produced charts, weapon assembly diagrams and signs. In this role, he learned printmaking and the screenprinting process, and subsequently was stationed in Italy making road signs. While in Italy, he took in as much renaissance art as was accessible in Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan, and also produced numerous drawings depicting life in the Army. In 1946, sponsored by the GI Bill, he returned to Carnegie Institute, and first met Andy Warhol, who was attracted to Pearlstein because of his notoriety in the school, having been featured in Life magazine. During the summer of 1947, the three rented a barn as a summer studio. Immediately after graduating in June 1949 with a BFA, Pearlstein and Warhol moved to New York City, at first sharing an eighth-floor walkup tenement apartment on St. Mark's Place at Avenue A. He was eventually hired by Czech designer Ladislav Sutnar, mainly doing industrial catalog work, while Warhol immediately found work illustrating department store catalogs presaging Pop Art. In April 1950, they moved to 323 W. 21st Street, into an apartment rented by Franziska Marie Boas, who ran a dance class on the other side of the room. During this time, Pearlstein painted a portrait of Warhol, now held by the Whitney Museum of American Art. In 1950, Philip Pearlstein married Dorothy Cantor, with Andy Warhol in the wedding party...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

"Auspicious", oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Wang Kun's "Auspicious" is an oil painting created in 2023 that depicts a beautifully lit, opulent still life of plums with dried flowers and a decorative plate. kun Wang(王琨), was ...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Oil

Original CHICAGO Continental Airlines - Jazz trumpet, vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Chicago Continental Airlines” linen-backed mint vintage poster. FREE Continental USA shipping on this Continental poster! Step back in ...
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1960s American Realist Art

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Offset

Still Life with Green Apples, American Realist, Award Winning Contemporary
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Jackson Wrede (American, Born 1996) Signed: Wrede (Lower, Left) " Still Life with Green Apples ", 2023 Oil on Wood Panel 16 x 20" Housed in a 4 1/2" Frame, circa 1890 (Artist Selected Frame) Overall Size: 24 1/2" x 28 1/2" The painting is in excellent condition. The frame paired with this piece shows wear consistent with age but is in overall very good condition. Jackson Wrede is an award-winning painter whose studio is located in Grand Rapids, MI. Wrede grew up in the suburbs of Chicago before attending the University of Notre Dame for his undergraduate studies. He later received his MFA in 2021 from the Kendall College of Art & Design. After graduating, he decided to stay in Grand Rapids, where he now works as a full-time painter. At 27 years of age, Jackson Wrede has gained recognition as one of the top realist painters in Michigan, with his artwork now in private collections, galleries, and institutions across the country. He has been awarded several prizes in both regional and national art exhibitions, including Grand Prizes in the 42nd Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition held in Birmingham, MI and the 79th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition at the Swope Art Museum in Terre Haute...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

Plantation Scene
Located in Austin, TX
A scene of a plantation in the mid 20th century by Charles Shaw. Charles William Shaw was a multifaceted American Postwar & Contemporary artist from Austin, Texas. Primarily known f...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Cannas 1978 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print on Arches
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Jon Carsman Cannas - 1978 Print - Silkscreen, on Arches archival paper   34½" x 24" in Edition: Signed in pencil, titled and marked 157/175 "Jon Carsman did for suburban and hometown views what Edward Hopper did for cities, except Carsman exchewed a human presence." Annette Dixon, curator of the University of Michigan Museum. Jon Carsman found the source of his inspiration in the play of color and light reflected across the framed houses...
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1970s American Realist Art

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Screen

Illustration for the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Rapunzel"
Located in Zofingen, AG
In 2023, after 20 years, he returned to the illustrations of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "Rapunzel". I wanted to write a couple of stories from a fairy tale, although the series ha...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Gourds
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Gourds by Mark Schiff We guarantee that you will love this painting. If not, you can return it for a complete refund, no questions asked.
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Early 2000s American Realist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Apple Orchard with Crows
Located in Dallas, TX
"Apple Orchard with Crows" by artist Miles Cleveland Goodwin is oil on canvas, and measures 30 x 40 inches. Including the artist-made frame, the overall dimensions are 31 1/2 x 41 1/...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Oil, Canvas

Original Ford, The all New Taunus 12M Super vintage German poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Ford of Germany, The All New Taunus 12M Super vintage German antique poster. Archivally linen-backed om excellent condition and ready to frame. We have not be able to locate any other document copy of this poster. The Taunus 12M, presented in 1952, was the first new German Ford...
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1950s American Realist Art

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Lithograph

WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial
Located in New York, NY
WPA Mid 20th Century Modern Social Realism American Scene Men Working Industrial Jo Cain (1904 - 2003) Bailing Hay 42 x 40 inches Oil on paper c. 1930s Signed lower right Unframed Our gallery is pleased to present the exhibition, "Jo Cain: Echoes of an Era," a tribute to the enduring legacy of Joseph Lambert Cain and a celebration of his art that transcends time and remains relevant today. The exhibition features mural studies, works on paper and paintings from the 1930s and 40s, all are available on 1stDibs. BIO JOSEPH LAMBERT CAIN (1904–2003) A painter, muralist, and art educator, Joseph Cain...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Paper, Oil

PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE
Located in Portland, ME
Hutty, Alfred. PHOEBE PASSES MY GATE. Drypoint, c. 1931. Edition size c.75. 8 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches (plate), 10 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (sheet). Printed on laid paper. In excellent condit...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Drypoint

A September Day
Located in Wenham, MA
A beautiful oil painting on linen by master artist Donald Jurney. For additional photos please contact us and we are happy to oblige! Donald Jurney (b. 1945) was educated at Columbi...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

Mother and Child with Goldfish
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A whimsical pastel featuring a Mother with her Child on her lap that just pulled a goldfish from it's bowl. A charming large work that is exquisitely framed. Peggy Dodds Williams ...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Pastel

Stingaree
Located in Dallas, TX
"Stingaree" by artist David Everett is polychromed mahogany, and measures 43 3/8 x 40 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. It is signed "© D EVERETT 2017". It depicts a mother and child, pelican and...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Paint, Mahogany

Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Joe Louis knocking out Max Schmeling in 1938 rematch) Pen and ink with wash on heavy wove sketchbook paper, 1938 Signed lower right: Fletcher Martin Directly related to Martin's famous painting of 1942 entitled "Lullaby", which was also used in the lithograph of the same name. (see photo) The drawing depicts the third and final knockdown of Max Schmeling in their rematch of 1938. Condition: Mat staining at the edges of the sketchbook page edges Toning to verso from previous framing. Does not affect framed presentation "It was here that Louis first used sport to bridge America's cavernous racial divide. With Hitler on the march in Europe and using Schmeling's victory over Louis as proof of “Aryan supremacy,” anti-Nazi sentiment ran high in the States. Louis had long grown accustomed to the pressures of representing his race but here the burdens were broader and deeper. Now he was shouldering the hopes of an entire nation. A few weeks before the match Louis visited the White House and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose tenure lasted even longer than Louis' would, told him, “Joe, we need muscles like yours to beat Germany.” Those muscles certainly beat Schmeling on fight night...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Ink

"Portrait of Qiang Woman", oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Wang Kun's "Portrait of Qiang Woman" is an oil painting created in 2023 that depicts a traditional Qiang woman. kun Wang(王琨), was born in Jilin Province of China in 1970. His legs...
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2010s American Realist Art

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Oil

"THE COWBOYS" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY James Robinson (1944-2015)
Located in San Antonio, TX
James Robinson (1944-2015) Austin, Dallas, Houston Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 40 x 50 Medium: Acrylic "The Cowboys" Texas Hill Country Biography James Robinson (1944-2015...
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20th Century American Realist Art

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Acrylic

Original "First Class Soldier and Citizen, USA" vintage American poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Linen backed original post-World War II military poster "First Class Soldier and Citizen, U.S.A." Original fold marks have been restored during linen backing. The poster features a smiling Army soldier in his khaki uniform. A rare original military poster to find today. (The poster was documented as being printed in a larger size.). R-224-RPB-2-1-47 A military recruitment poster for young men to join the military post World War 2. The poster features a clean-cut, handsome man in his military uniform with crossed arms smiling at you. Artist: Glass. No known biography of this artist. This is an original 1947 vintage American poster...
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1940s American Realist Art

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Offset

Original Einstein "Hair. It's not the style that counts" vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Einstein vintage poster. “Hair. It’s not the style that counts, it’s what’s under it.” A black and white image of Einstein with his hair messed me. Linen-backed in excellent condition, ready to frame. From a series of portraits with inspirational quotes from The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Photo from Bettmann Archive. The poster is a variation of the original photo with the quote “It’s not the style that counts, it’s what’s under it”. This quote is a play on words emphasizing substance's importance over style. The poster reminds us that actual value lies in what is inside a person rather than their outward appearance. About Equitable Life. After closing to new business in 2000, parts of the business were sold off, and the remainder of the company became a subsidiary of Utmost Life and Pensions in January 2020. The Equitable Life Assurance Society (Equitable Life), founded in 1762, is a life insurance...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Offset

Joe D'Allesandro
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Kenn Duncan (1928-1986). Portrait of Joe D'Allesandro, ca. 1973. Photographic period print measuring 11 x 14 inches. Measures 12 x 15 inches framed. Studio stamp on verso. The print was used for publication in After Dark Magazine. From the estate of William Como, Editor in Chief, After Dark Magazine. Kenneth Duncan was born September 22, 1928, in New Jersey. He began his career as a skater and then a dancer. After breaking his foot and taking a six-week course on photography at a YMCA, he became a photographer. Duncan worked as a principal photographer for After Dark and Dance Magazine. His photographs also regularly appeared in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Time, and Newsweek. In addition, he photographed a score of Broadway shows, including Hair, Applause, The Elephant Man, and Sophisticated Ladies and many dance and Broadway stars including Chita Rivera...
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1970s American Realist Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Summer
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Summer Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Offset

Floral Still Life with Roses, Lilacs, and Zinnias
Located in Austin, TX
This stunning floral still life by A.D. Greer features a bouquet of vibrant red and white roses, purple lilacs, and red and orange zinnia flowers. Measuring a sizable 36 x 48 inches,...
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20th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original 'Will You Supply Eyes for the Navy?' vintage American military poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original WW1 poster, linen-backed. Very good condition, rare American WW1 antique military poster. Navy ships need binoculars and spy-glasses. Will you ...
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1910s American Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

TAPESTRY OF SPRING Hand Drawn Lithograph Grand Tetons Wyoming Mountain Landscape
Located in Union City, NJ
TAPESTRY OF SPRING by the American Western artist Conrad Schwiering, is a hand drawn limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Somerset paper 100% acid free. TAPESTRY OF SPRING is a realistic Western landscape scene set in Wyoming featuring a backdrop of Wyoming's majestic Grand Teton snow...
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Gnarled Tree - African American Artist
Located in Miami, FL
Executed in 1930, this abstract yet representational biomorphic charcoal work by African American Artist Charles Henry Alston prefigures his ...
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1930s American Realist Art

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Paper, Charcoal

Along the River, Cattle Grazing, American Realist, Oil on Board, Landscape
By Clinton Loveridge
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Clinton Loveridge was born in Troy, New York, in 1838. By 1859 Loveridge had his own studio and was known primarily for his pastoral landscapes with cattle and sheep. He exhibited at...
Category

Late 19th Century American Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

A Note Was Left
Located in Wenham, MA
An original oil painting by GC Williams. This piece is an enigmatic interior scene with sumptuous fabrics and a tiled floor. Williams has a degree in art...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Winter
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Winter Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
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1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Offset

Original Freedom from Want 1943 vintage poster. Thanksgiving
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage poster: FREEDOM FROM WANT, Ours to fight for ... Original. Artist: Normal Rockwell. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Note: All US Go...
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1940s American Realist Art

Materials

Offset

Radishes III
Located in Wenham, MA
Dale Zinkowski is a master of still life. His work, reminiscent of Golden Age Dutch still life painting, glows with light and subtle, quiet beauty. This original oil painting shows a bunch of beautifully ripe radishes on a dark ground so that their color shines. The herringbone texture of the linen this piece is painted on adds a subtle depth. This piece is framed in a beautiful warm silver frame, its overall measurements being approximately 11x14 inches. Dale Zinkowski was born in New York and his earliest memories of painting and drawing were from his Grandfather's own work, which hung throughout the home. Fascinated by the world around him, and the ability to capture fleeting moments on paper, he began to draw and paint from nature almost exclusively. ​From 1993-97, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City where he studied the Reilly method with both Marvin Mattelson and John F. Murray. Inspired by the techniques, and hungry for more information, he began copying from the old masters at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  ​When Murray moved his studio to Tucson, Arizona, Dale followed and focused his studies on the palettes, methods, and materials of artists such as Velazquez and Rembrandt.  ​In 2012, Dale attended the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, where he pushed his understanding of traditional techniques and materials even further while drawing and painting master copies in museums and painting landscapes in the countryside.  ​In 2013, Dale returned to New York City, where he immersed himself in the full-time program at Grand Central Atelier studying under Jacob Collins, Ted Minoff, Will St. John and Colleen Barry...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Located in New York, NY
"Backyards" Early 20th Century Watercolor Fauvism Social Realism American Scene Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identic...
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1910s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Angel to the Rescue. Near Death Drug Overdose - Lower East Side
Located in Miami, FL
A disheveled young man lies passed out on Ludlow Street in New York City's Lower East Side. As if he was invisible, herds of pedestrians shuffle by. An angel benevolently comes to hi...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Answering the Door Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Answering the Door Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
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1910s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Spring
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Spring Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
Category

1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Offset

Ski North Carolina
Located in Raleigh, NC
RGRFineArts is pleased to offer this beautiful watercolor by renowned North Carolina artist William Mangum of skiers on a ski run, likely in Mangum's ho...
Category

1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Pond, screen print, 2004 by Joseph Raffael (red & yellow koi in pond)
Located in New York, NY
This signed and numbered print is in excellent condition and comes directly from Lincoln Center, publisher of the edition. b. 1933, Brooklyn, NY Joseph Raffael’s paintings are infl...
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Early 2000s American Realist Art

Materials

Screen

Sea breeze
Located in Zofingen, AG
The blue sky merges with the color of the ocean. The feeling of sea wind, sea freshness. This painting is dedicated to courage, strength and beauty. Man and horse, interaction, love....
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Pitcher & Peaches" - Still Life - American Realist Painting - fruit
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Pitcher & Peaches" is a still life painting featuring hues of orange, yellow, tan and green. Sarah Lamb is inspired by the work of John Singer Sargent, Wayne Thiebaud and Emil Carlsen. This piece is framed 14 by 14 inches. Sarah Lamb is a talented and dynamic realist painter. With classical skill—and through transparency, depth and texture—she captures the minute details of everyday objects in her dramatic still lifes and luscious landscapes. She makes us love the familiar and see beauty in the mundane. Born in Petersburg, VA, with a passion for art and an appreciation for the past, Sarah spent a semester at the Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy before graduating from Brenau Women’s College with a BS degree in Studio Art in 1993. Following a summer workshop in Santa Fe, NM with renowned classical painter Jacob Collins, she spent two years painting at The Ecole Albert Defois in the Loire Valley with classical realist artist Ted Seth Jacobs...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Rockwell, Four Ages of Love: Autumn
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) Title: Four Ages of Love: Autumn Year: circa 1985 Medium: Offset lithograph on wove paper Edition: A.P. aside from the edition of 350, plus proofs...
Category

1980s American Realist Art

Materials

Offset

Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene
Located in New York, NY
Two Men on a Street Early 20th Century w/c Fauvism Social Realism American Scene Note: We have three similar in style works from 1911 available now on 1stDibs. All are framed identi...
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Early 1900s American Realist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Old House and Truck in 1970's Urban Scene
Located in Miami, FL
What America looked like in 1979. This three-storied house with peeling paint, dilapidated terraces, and a clothesline was shot in Hartford, Connecticut. Signed, dated and numb...
Category

1970s American Realist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink

"Athena I" - American Realism - Equine - Horse Sculpture
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Athena I" is a bonded bronze on black marble base. edition of 50 - bronze w/ other finishes are available. Echoing the spirit of masters of Equestrian art like Stubbs, Gericault, B...
Category

2010s American Realist Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

In the Bourbonnais
Located in Wenham, MA
A beautiful oil painting on linen by master artist Donald Jurney. Donald Jurney (b. 1945) was educated at Columbia University, the Pratt Institute, and the Art Students League. Hi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Panel, Oil

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