Elena Sokolova

Mountains, Painting, Oil on Canvas

2020

'Coastal Feeling' is an original oil painting on gallery wrap stretched canvas by Lisa Elley. Inspired by the iconic California coastal landscape, this piece features thick impasto t...

After a long walk along the beach, this scene inspired me to paint it. What I liked about it are the shapes. Although the day was windy and overcast, there were many people on the be...

The idea of this painting was to embrace nature's tranquility. I found inspiration on a journey along a hiking path in the Laguna hills revealing the mesmerizing play of shifting sha...

An Oceanside visit brought inspiration for this painting. It stood out as a great focal point for my idea. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certific...

A fun genre painting with students in a classroom being students by American artist George Henry Story (1835-1923). Story was born in New Haven, CT, and after studying a year in Euro...

A fine impressionist landscape of a winter stream by American artist Jonas Lie (1880-1940). Lie was born in Moss, Norway to an accomplished Norwegian engineer and an American mother. Named after his uncle, a novelist and close friend of Henrik Ibsen, Jonas went to Paris to live with his uncle in 1892, after his father's death. Surely it was here, the twelve year-old boy was influenced by the creative spirit found in his uncle's home. In 1893, Jonas moved to New York City, where he took evening classes at Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League while working designing fabric patterns for a textile company to raise money to support his education. After the completion of his education, Lie spent most of his summers along the New England coast and Canada. Here he would paint bright, impressionistic harbor scenes and rocky, coastal views, which he would exhibit regularly. The landscapes and coastal paintings Lie created in New England can be characterized by a facile, broad handling of pigment and an impressionistic sense of light and air. was a prolific painter, known for his coastal views of New England and New York scenes. He became the president of the National Academy of Design from 1935 to 1939, a year before his death. Lie was also known for a series of paintings of the last days of construction of the Panama Canal in 1913. These paintings were given to the United States Military Academy...

An oil painting on paper - framed and matted. Optional Plexiglass included. 17 x 13 inches, framed Kelly Carmody (b. 1977, Massachusetts) Rooted in realism, Carmody’s compositions ...

An oil painting by American Artist Kelly Carmody. Painted en-plein-air in Vermont, a pond has frozen over. A single tree stands straight up, adorned with just a couple of branches of...