Landscape Paintings
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Inspired by the azure waters of iconic Lake Tahoe, artist Lisa Elley portrays the beauty of the mountains in the fall season. Her signature impasto technique ca...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Paint, Oil, Pencil, Canvas
Artist Comments
"I wanted to show the ideal daily farm life in Iowa," shares artist Sri Rao. She captures the crisp, sunny morning with cows mooing and w...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
Artist David Thelen presents a serene spot nestled in a mountain range. The water's edge glimmers at the foot of towering trees, while lush foliage adorns the f...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1920s Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Italian School Landscape Paintings
Oil
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Cardboard, Oil
1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1990s Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
In Sri Rao's charming depiction, the contrasting beauty of a summer morning before a thunderstorm emerges in vibrant colors. "Birds start...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
I love combining a strong tree line with a colorful foreground in my work," says artist Ronda Waiksnis. In this painting, Ronda portrays the abundant blessings ...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Landscape Paintings
Wax, Oil
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"I worked to expound upon the beauty of magnificent colors at dusk," says artist Mary Pratt. In this painting, she captures the breathtaking backwater sunset...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1990s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
2010s Landscape Paintings
Oil
1980s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Gouache
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Artist Lisa Elley shows her signature palette knife trees textured with deep impasto strokes. The foliage exhibits subtle movement and richness in colors. Lisa'...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
Artist David Thelen captures a timber laying on the green meadow. "I wonder about the purpose of the tree being cut and abandoned in the woods," says David. The...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Pencil
1950s Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Shop Landscape Paintings on 1stDibs
It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.
The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.
The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).
Adding a landscape painting to your home can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of your own space. (Some may think of it as an aspirational window of sorts rather than a canvas.) Abstract landscape paintings by the likes of Korean painter Seungyoon Choi or Georgia-based artist Katherine Sandoz, on the other hand, bring pops of color and movement into a room. These landscapes refuse to serve as a background. Elsewhere, Adam Straus’s technology-inspired paintings highlight how our extreme involvement with our devices has removed us from the glory of the world around us. Influenced by modern life and steeped in social commentary, Straus’s landscape paintings make us see our surroundings anew.
Whether you’re seeking works by the world’s most notable names or those authored by underground legends, find a vast collection of landscape paintings on 1stDibs.