ROBERT S. DUNCANSON: EARLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTIST There were several communities of free blacks throughout the north and south in antebellum America. The communities supported a number of thriving businesses from doctors and barbers to ministers and pharmacists. There were even a number of artists to come out of these communities…

REGIONALISM French Impressionism ushered in a brave new world of art and within fifty years of its beginnings, the art world was watching the rise of landscape paintings by Picasso and Matisse. The center of this creative hurricane was Paris but its effects could be felt in other European cities…

In recent weeks, Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith have been making the rounds of the bookstores, radio talk shows and university lecture halls promoting their new book on Vincent Van Gogh, which is now a NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. In late 2011, a segment spotlighting the book appeared on…

AMERICA’S FIRST PROFESSIONAL ARTIST/JOHN SMIBERT In the American colonies’ first hundred years or so, the artists that painted in the colonies where itinerant limners, men who traveled throughout the area, painting portraits, sometimes of prominent people but usually of the unknown settlers of the young colonies. The limners not only…

Two rows of small, Cape Cod houses at the end of fall are shown in this cityscape. They are on either side of a circular road that is displayed from one side. One row of houses line the horizon of the painting while a few houses from the other side can be seen on the right.

IS THIS THE NEW MONA LISA? I am not a person who likes to drain a subject dry but in the past week or so, since I wrote a blog entry on NOVA/PBS’ documentary on an attempt to validate a sketch by Leonardo Da Vinci, the Renaissance painter has become…

THE LUMINISTS The first wave of Hudson River artists were a handful of men who traveled up the river to visit and paint the sights as the Hudson coursed through the mountains, palisades and hills of upstate New York. But once the Erie Canal and the railroads brought a vast…

Backyard Garden is an evening painting of two garages with garden in front of them. Also included in the scene is a pile of logs stacked behind one garage and a garden of lilies behind the other. Two maple trees, one very big and one still growing fill the sky.

Recently, I watched an reproduction of NOVA on PBS, as scientists and collectors attempted to validate very old artwork based one art collector’s hunch that he had purchased an unknown Leonardo Da Vinci sketch on vellum. Leonardo came from the small Italian town of Vinci in the northern part of…

LIFE OF AN ITINERANT PAINTER/Junius Sloan In the 19th century, the cities of the American Northeast were filled with artists. Some of them led successful careers; others struggled. Some of the ones who struggled left for other areas, the coastal South, western Pennsylvania and upstate New York. Some of them…

AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM In the first half of the 19th century, any American artist who wanted artistic training in Europe usually went to London, but as the century progressed, Germany and France became the choice of those looking for cutting edge ideas. By the time of our Civil War, the roots…

this cityscape looks like a painting of one gas station but a second one stands behind it in the painting. From the foreground, you can see the medians of grass and landscaping that separate the gas station from the street…

OCTOBER INTERIOR/Fairfield Porter “…aesthetics is what connects one to matter of fact. It is anti-ideal, it is materialistic. It implies no approval, but respect for things as they are.” The quote is from Fairfield Porter. I like the quote because it explains the functionality of realism without demanding any thing…

JOB LOT CHEAP, a realism oil painting by: William Harnett in 1878 When I was young, my neighbor tried to whet my interests in art by showing me this massive art history book filled with images of old European paintings. But old oil paintings of people and places I didn’t…

Several tall buildings along a corner of a downtown intersection. Near the bottom of the painting, along the streets, cars, a bus and pedestrian traffic can be seen. The sky is a vivid blue. In the left foreground is a traffic light. A few of the buildings look modern while others have an Art Deco feel to them

AMERICA’S FIRST ART: PORTRAITURE In the 1600s, England had four main colonies in America, New England, New York (taken from the Dutch), Quaker Pennsylvania and the Virginia area. By the later years of the 1600s, there were already painters creating America’s first fine artwork. By the American Revolution, the major…

This riverscape is a horizontal painting with part of the city skyline running along the horizon. As the view pulls forward, you can see the river cross from left to right in the foreground of the painting and on the right, a bridge passes over.

Now that Christmas is over, I can confess that I took my own advice and bought my wife a nice piece of sculpted wood for Christmas. Whenever we have an opportunity, which is usually about once a year or so, we like to buy something created by a local artist….

As the days until Christmas grow shorter, you have found that you bought presents for the people who are easy to shop for: your brother, who likes any video game that comes out; your niece, who likes anything as long as its pink; the love of your life, who has…

This cityscape shows a road that descends a small hill and then passes into the horizon as the sun sets. The horizon is a distant line of trees and a number of suburban water towers. Cars drive to and fro upon the road that is split by a number of boulevards.

This past weekend, my wife set time aside to work on her Christmas cards. Several years ago, she fell in love with a card based on a 19th century painting that appealed to both her knowledge of both art history and Ancient Egyptian history. We set out to find out…

This fall, a brand new art museum opened in an out of the way town amid a lot of fuss. Does Bentonville, Arkansas ring a bell? Its the home of WalMart and Sam Walton’s daughter, Alice, with the help of the Walton Family Foundation, has put together what she hopes…

City Hall is a painting dominated by a large, 10-story, 19th century building on the left side of the painting. Sun shines on the façade while the shadow of another building starts to creep upon it.

2011 is the bicentennial of George Bingham’s birth. His home in Missouri is a National Historic Landmark and the George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné Supplement Of Paintings & Drawings announced to the world that they had authenticated ten previously unknown Bingham paintings. That he is now considered one of America’s…

A cityscape of a parking lot on a random, cloudy, summer day, where a scattering of cars are spread around the lot. Behind the lot are the parking lot fence and a row of older houses. These houses are shrouded by the residential trees.

Many people are rather daunted by the idea of buying art, even if they really appreciate it, as if they were stepping into a foreign land and embracing concepts that seem bewildering and befuddling.

There are a lot of Impressionist paintings to be found, if you look for them. This show is called Impressionism: Masters On Paper and is a very nice representation of the smaller pieces fro this loose collection of artists.

A row of postwar office buildings with cars parked in front of them. In front of this setting lies a four-lane city street with a grassy meridian. Rising from the meridian are two streetlights while older cars are parked in from of the buildings and near us.

This winter cityscape shows an older city neighborhood with a lot of snow. A street runs into the distance with a few cars parked along the snow banks. To the right, a large brown building, trimmed in red stands. Beyond sit other old, two-story houses.

In this landscape, a country road appears on the far left and passes into the distance in the middle of the painting. On the right is a cornfield, which dominates the painting’s foreground. To the left, two houses stand.

The art of painting took hold in colonial America in the form of portrait painting. Once wealth established itself in America, the previously puritanical colonies became much more worldly, so a nice portrait of the master and mistress of the house, decked out in all of their finery, was a…

A row of Cape Cod houses, most of them white, recedes into the distance to the left. The sidewalk runs in front of the houses and follows them up into the distance. A few ornamental birches stand dormant on a few of the lawns and a large pine stops the view in the distance.

This cityscape comes from the shadow that falls at an angle across the front of the painting. The shadow falls over a parking lot with five cars parked next to each other. Just beyond them, a for more cars are parked near a show fence.

Lawn Ornament is a cityscape painting of two small houses, one in front of the other. The nearer yard has a few small lawn ornaments decorating the yard. This cityscape oil painting is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. Canvas size: 22" x 28"

Contact to Buy Fine Art

Woodside California is well known for it’s landscapes, impressionism, and plein air artwork. Which has been inspired by the visual beauty of the bay area’s nature, flowers, and hills and deep gorges. Combined with all the rivers, tributaries and streams that run off of the San Francisco bay, it is hard for any artist to resist recreating these natural scenic landscapes in oil on canvas.

Summer Trees is a cityscape painting of tall trees casting shade in the summer. The sun light dapples the street, the neighborhood houses and the lawns through the sheltering trees. This fine art oil painting is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. Canvas size: 24" x 36"

Used Cars is a cityscape painting where there are three tight rows of cars ready for sale. The angle it is painted at is from the driver side rear corner on a sunny spring day. This cityscape painting is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. Canvas size: 24" x 36"

Contact to Buy Fine Art

Railroad Crossing is high-quality, fine landscape art. Featuring a railroad crossing & road that runs straight into the horizon, rising as it climbs a hill in the distance. This landscape painting is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism.
Canvas size: 24" x 36"

Fall Turning is fine landscape art done on oil on canvas of trees in a park changing color in the fall. On the left the trees are turning a golden fall color. This landscape masterpiece is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. Canvas size: 18" x 36"

Contact to Buy Fine Art

Landscape art for sale in Westchester County is huge due to the epic legacy the Hudson River School left behind that inspired many modern day landscape painters like Stark Young, and contributed to the growth of fine art galleries in Westchester County, NY.

Railroad Trestle shows a railroad bridge as it crosses a four-lane road that dips under the bridge, creating a nice view of the surrounding suburban woodlands. This landscape painting is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism.
Canvas size: 24" x 36"

Contact to Buy Fine Art

Albrecht Durer left prints of animals with his etching of a hare being among the more renowned. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Lady With An Ermine and Peiro Di Cosimo’s The Forest Fire are among the better known Renaissance paintings that include animals

For most of the 20th century, the march of the Modern art movements, one after another, suggested that the likes of Monet, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso and Pollack would be the artistic ideas that would carry on into the 21st century but as our current times unraveled.

The Renaissance first rose up in Florence. Florence was one of several powerful city-states in Italy, in a political situation that reflected ancient Greece. These cities allowed both the spreading and the competing of ideas, whether it was in the arts, literature or politics.

RELIGIOUS AND HISTORICAL PAINTINGS When the Roman Catholic Church replaced the Roman Empire as the power behind Western Europe, they used the Roman’s love of mosaic and fresco to produce the first Roman Catholic religious art. By the time of the barbarian invasions of Western Europe, Catholic monks resided within…

Portraiture in painting and fine art has been around for centuries as cultures of almost every kind have produced masks, funeral representations, portraits of celebration and figurines, all to represent important people or people dear to someone. Only the Islamic culture has a taboo against human representation.

Photorealism reproduced photos usually at a much larger size than the photograph itself. The reproductive procedures were rather mechanical as the artists traced from slide projections or transferred the image using the centuries old grid method. Although the artwork itself could look photorealistic, the painting methods

Renoir was born in Limoges, home of the famous porcelain works. It was at the porcelain factory where Renoir first learned his craft. A light sense of color and sketchiness, similar to some types of porcelain painting, would appear in his work. Unlike the others, Renoir focused much more on portraiture and genre work.

Norman Rockwell’s Saturday Evening Post magazine covers. Even artists in the outsider art movement choose to interpret the reality of life in styles sometimes close to genre painting. Painting can be divided up into classifications known as “genre”, so it is a little interesting that one of these genres of painting is known as “genre painting”

Like portraiture, figurative painting underwent a number of changes during the modern art movements. Possible the greatest painters were Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, both of whom painted nudes in their own styles.

Rembrandt was one of Amsterdam’s hot young painters in the early years of the 1600’s. The Eighty Years’ War, fought by the Dutch for their independence from Spain, left a wealth of military garbage for Rembrandt to use in his own dramatically lit work

LANDSCAPE ART Since European painting arose during the Renaissance, landscape painting has been a part of Western art, but landscapes could be found in Italy, as well as Eastern Asia, many centuries earlier. Both the Chinese and the Romans welcomed the idea of artwork that celebrated nature and Roman landscapes…

REALISM Art is a visual explanation of who we are, what we want, where we are and what we believe. While modern art and the styles that followed expanded those thoughts, we still create along those ideas. From the birth of Western art in the late Middle Ages to the…

HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL In the 19th century, American art was almost nonexistent or, at least, hardly known. It did have a few artists of some renown, such as historical painter Benjamin West or portraitists Gilbert Stuart and John Copley. These artists leaned heavily on the European style taught in the…

Landscape Art that originated inside the Seal Beach, CA region, is heavily influenced by the maritime naval fleet artists, Latin or Mexican landscape artists, as well as realism landscape art. Any art connoisseur would relish gazing at all the fine art and oil paintings the Seal Beach, CA Galleries have to offer.

Neglected Garden in Fall is a cityscape, or suburbanscape painting for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. It has lots of arboreal foliage, as well as a garden, turning in the fall, trees behind it and to the left and right of it are turning yellow & brown. Canvas size: 24” x 40”

Contact to Buy Fine Art

Church On a Hill is a landscape art rendition of a church on the top of a hill, over looking the artistic landscape. This landscape art painting was the result of a landscape art competition. This landscape art painting is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. Canvas size: 24" x 36"

Contact to Buy Fine Art

A Prairie Fall this landscape exhibits a row of trees & the ground in front of the wooded landscape is covered with a variety of bushes and grasses turning a variety of colors in the fall. This landscape art is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. Canvas size: 18" x 36"

Contact to Buy Fine Art

Pasture in the Evening is a landscape painting where sheep are grazing in the evening on a hillside field. The barn in the distance stands sheltered by a grove of trees. This fine landscape art is for sale by the Fine Art Gallery of Realism. Canvas size: 24" x 36"

Contact to Buy Fine Art