American Artist

American art covers a huge range, from the realism of early portrait painters to today’s bold contemporary work. This section gathers painters, sculptors, and photographers from across the United States, each bringing a different eye to the American experience. Some lean into wide open landscapes and small town life, others turn to city streets, personal memory, or pure abstraction. What ties them together is a restless, independent spirit that keeps pushing in new directions. Browse this section to see how American artists, past and present, keep finding fresh ways to capture the country and the people in it.

Jeremy Lipking | American Artist

Jeremy Lipking is an American realist painter born in Santa Monica in 1975, who grew up around art through his illustrator father before briefly pursuing music and then committing fully to painting. Drawing on masters like John Singer Sargent and Joaquin Sorolla, he blends precise realism with impressionistic softness, often painting his wife Danielle and…
Andrea Orr | American Artist

Andrea Orr is an American representational painter from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who earned her BFA and MFA in commercial art from Pensacola Christian College, where she also met her husband and fellow painter Adam Clague. Working in oil across still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, she is drawn to how light transforms ordinary objects and everyday…
Jeff Clow | American Artist

Jeff Clow is an American landscape and travel photographer based in Dallas, Texas, who left a career as a leadership consultant after discovering Flickr in 2004 and calls himself an accidental professional. Represented by Getty Images with a stock portfolio of over 1,000 photos, his work has appeared in Popular Photography and in marketing campaigns…
Lennart Anderson | American Artist

Lennart Anderson was an American figurative painter born in Detroit in 1928, who stayed true to realism even as the art world around him went abstract. He settled in New York in 1953 and spent decades teaching at Pratt, Yale, and Brooklyn College while painting street scenes, portraits, and quietly monumental still lifes of everyday…
Jared Ropelato | American Artist

Jared Ropelato is an American landscape photographer from Boise, Idaho, who has spent years chasing the light across the western United States, from Death Valley to the Hawaiian coast. His images, often shot by moonlight or at the edge of a storm, aim to pull viewers into the scene rather than just show it to…
Karen Hutton | American Artist

Karen Hutton is an American landscape and travel photographer, speaker, and educator who grew up near Lake Tahoe in the Sierra Nevada mountains. A Fujifilm X-Photographer and Ambassador, she treats her camera like a paintbrush, chasing light and emotion over technical perfection in locations from Slovenia to the American Southwest. Beyond her photography, she teaches…
Pál Fried | Paintings | American Artist

Pál Fried was a Hungarian-born painter, born in Budapest in 1893, who trained at the Hungarian Academy of Arts before studying in Paris under Lucien Simon. Inspired by Impressionists like Renoir and Degas, he became known for his paintings of dancers, ballerinas, and elegant female portraits, later finding success in Hollywood painting celebrities such as…
Steve Hanks – Nude | American Artist

This gallery gathers Steve Hanks’ watercolor nudes, a quieter, more intimate side of the American artist known for his tender, light-filled portraits of women. Working in transparent watercolor rather than oil, he built up soft layers of color to capture skin, mood, and vulnerability with remarkable delicacy. The collection shows why his technical control of…
Sara Bardin | American Artist

Sara Bardin is an American painter based in Washington, DC, who began creating art in 2009 as a way to unwind, starting with family portraits before a visit to the U.S. Botanic Garden turned her attention to flowers. Working in acrylic with layering and impasto techniques, she captures the color and texture of botanical subjects…
Sharon Sprung | American Artist

Sharon Sprung is an American painter who builds her oil paintings slowly through layered, deliberate brushwork, blending realism with patterned abstraction to search for the human condition in each figure. Trained at the Art Students League, the National Academy of Design, and Cornell University, she draws on influences like Caravaggio, Velázquez, and Käthe Kollwitz. Her…