Michael Strang

The Wave. Contemporary Impressionist Seascape Oil Painting

2003

A walk through an autumnal arboretum is often a gentle and pleasant experience. At times there can also be a slight and silvery mist so that shadows are lost and the whole seems to f...

Penny has used different techniques to capture the essence of sparkling light on water. The tide is slowly seeping in and the river swells pushing up the banks. But the air is so sti...

This was a blisterly hot day. Anyone who as a cat will know cats like the heat and they seek out a nice comfy spot in the sun. This comfy spot was in the middle of my stil life! In ...

Early Spring Day, It has taken me a very long time to get the balance between inside and outside right with this painting. Three years in fact! I wanted there to be a conversation b...

A fine impressionist coastal painting with boats in the harbor and a cabbage garden in the foreground by French artist Louis Abel-Truchet (1857-1918). Louis Abel-Truchet was born in ...

A fine impressionist coastal painting of the New Jersey coast by Australian / American artist Heyley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia, and studied at Adelaide's Prince Alfred College and attended James Ashton’s Academy of Art. He traveled and studied in England, eventually exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.Lever moved to New York around 1910, painting scenes of the city. He summered in Gloucester, MA, where he painted and taught sketching and painting classes at his summer studio. He became well known for his post-impressionist marine and landscape paintings. Lever’s works hang in several museums/institutions, including: The White House, Yale University Art Gallery, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Detroit Institute of Art, Colby College, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Oil on canvas, signed lower left, artist placard, title and date inscribed on verso “Coast of New Jersey below Asbury Park...

A fine impressionist woodland scene with a brook and birches by American artist Paul Bernard King (1867-1947). King was born in Buffalo, New York, and after becoming an established printer, went on to study at the NY Art Students League with Henry S. Mowbray. While a student, he became an illustrator for Life and Harper’s magazines, and went on to become well known for his portraits, landscapes, rural scenes, and illustrations. Oil on canvas, signed lower right, inscribed title on verso stretcher “Paul King, Stony Brook...

Forest View of a Village in Normandy by David Harris (American, 20th c.) A fine original oil painting of Normandy, France by an American artist. The painting is on canvas and measu...