"Modern American Realism" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum makes an interesting pendant to a larger and more compelling show at the Phillips Collection, also devoted to American art from ...

Roby and her advisors recognized that modern life allowed for many kinds of realism. The Sara Roby Foundation has long supported collection and research initiatives at the Smithsonian American Art ...

Art can be powerful and impactful even when it focuses on meaning and concept over technique. A powerful subject or idea may be more interesting than a perfectly manufactured piece of realism.

Twelve of the 15 American landscape paintings now on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art were pulled from local private collections. These works show the American wilderness with a highly ...

Realism, surrealism in contemporary art: Adjust font size: The exhibition shows three of the most prominent representatives of this modern "converted realism."(Photo: CCTV.com) ...

Rooted in the unprecedented events and upheavals of recent years, the presence of magical realism across a range of contemporary art is a fascinating development. Hydeon, Judgement Day (2022).

Contemporary Realism is now of view at the Maine Art Gallery at 15 Warren St. in Wiscasset. The current show of work by established Maine artists a is a collection of talent brought together by ...

"Modern American Realism'' opens Friday, featuring 70 paintings and sculpture spanning from 1910 to 1980. It draws on the works of the Sara Roby collection, which was given to the museum in 1986.