Fine American Art has paved the way for some incredible and memorable artwork which is now known throughout the world today. American painting has been influenced by parts of the world while fine American art brings out something from the past and history of the USA while making you feel connected.

The following are 50 great paintings that are well known today.

50 Fine Art American Paintings 

1.      George Washington (Athenaeum)

Painter: Gilbert Stuart

Year: 1796

 

2.      Washington Crossing the Delaware

Painter: Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze

Year: 1851

 

3.      George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page from an American History Textbook

Painter: Robert H. Colescott

Year: 1975

 

4.      Three Flags

Painter: Jasper Johns

Year: 1958

 

5.      President Elect

Painter: James Rosenquist

Year: 1960-61 and 1964

 

6.      Barack Obama/Hope

Painter: Shepard Fairey

Year: 2008

 

7.      Untitled

Painter: Irina Rozeal Brown

Year: 2003

 

8.      Amethyst Hummingbird with a White Orchid

Painter: Martin Johnson Heade

Year: ca. 1870-1880

 

9.      Death of General Wolfe

Painter: Benjamin West

Year: 1770

 

10.  Great America

Painter: Kerry James Marshall

Year: 1994

 

11.  The Old Plantation

Painter: probably John Rose

Year: 1785-1790

 

12.  Self-Portrait

Painter: Chuck Close

Year: c.2000-1

 

13.  The Artist in His Museum

Painter: Charles Wilson Peale

Year: 1822

 

14.  Peaceable Kingdom

Painter: Edward Hicks

Year: ca. 1825-30

 

15.  Watson and the Shark

Painter: John Singleton Copley

Year: 1778

 

16.  The Jolly Flatboatman

Painter: George Caleb Bingham

Year: 1846

 

17.  Dean Berkeley and his Entourage (aka the Bermuda Group)

Painter: John Smibert

Year: ca.1729-39

 

18.  Reverend John Atwood and His Family

Painter: Henry F. Darby

Year: 1845

 

19.  Gallery of the Louvre

Painter: Samuel F.B. Morse

Year: 1831-33

 

20.  Kindred Spirits

Painter: Asher Brown Durand

Year: 1849

 

21.  The Veteran in a New Field

Painter: Winslow Homer

Year: 1865

 

22.  The Gross Clinic

Painter: Thomas Eakins

Year: 1875

 

23.  Spectrum

Painter: Richard Philips

Year: 1998

 

24.  Christina’s World

Painter: Andrew Newell Wyeth

Year: 1948

 

25.  Madam Pierre Gautreau (aka Madame X)

Painter: John Singer Sargent

Year: 1884

 

26.  Elizabeth Clarke Freake and Baby Mary

Painter: Anonymous

Year: c.1671-74

 

27.  Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother

Painter: James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Year: 1871

 

28.  Portrait of the Artist’s Mother

Painter: Henry Ossawa Tanner

Year: 1897

 

29.  The Grass Fire (Back-Firing)

Painter: Frederick Remington

Year: ca. 1908

 

30.  Sugar Shack

Painter: Ernie Barnes

Year: ca. 1972

 

31.  Stag at Sharkeys

Painter: George Bellows

Year: 1909

 

32.  Brooklyn Bridge

Painter: Joseph Stella

Year: 1919-1920

 

33.  Woolworth Building no. 31

Painter: John Marin

Year: 1920

 

34.  American Gothic

Painter: Grant Wood

Year: 1930

 

35.  Jack-in-the-Pulpit

Painter: Georgia O’Keeffe

Year: 1930

 

36.  Nighthawks

Painter: Edward Hopper

Year: 1942

 

37.  Untitled

Painter: Lee Krasner

Year: 1949

 

38.  One: Number 31

Painter: Jackson Pollock

Year: 1950

 

39.  Sleepwalker

Painter: Eric Fischl

Year: 1979

 

40.  Elegy to the Spanish Republic

Painter: Robert Motherwell, LXX

Year: c. 1961

 

41.  Skylight

Painter: Alma W. Thomas

Year: c. 1973

 

42.  Carol

Painter: Patrick Nagel

Year: c. 1980s

 

43.  Untitled

Painter: Keith Haring and Andy Warhol

Year: 1985

 

44.  Allegory

Painter: Kara Walker

Year: 1996

 

45.  Pantocrator

Painter: Vincent Desiderio

Year: 2002

 

46.  View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts (The Oxbow)

Painter: Thomas Cole

Year: 1836

 

47.  Portrait of a German Officer

Painter: Marsden Hartley

Year: 1914

 

48.  Bush at Abu Ghraib

Painter: Peter Saul

Year: 2006

 

49.  Ledger Painting (Abbott Ledger Book)

Painter: Cheyenne Tribe

Year: ca. 1870s

 

50.  Freedom from Want

Painter: Norman Rockwell

Year: 1943