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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878) - French School Oil, Banks of the Seine
Located in Corsham, GB
A remarkable French riverscape by the Impressionist painter Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878). Boats at quay on the banks of the Seine. Oil on panel. Signed lower right. Presente...
Category
Mid-19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moody Dawn Mist with Winter Trees in a Rural Village in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Moody Dawn Mist with Winter Trees in a Rural Village in the English Countryside by British Artist, Kevin Curtis (1958-2009)
Art measures 24 x 18 inches
F...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Notre Dame de Paris II
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Notre Dame de Paris II', gouache on paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). One of two paintings of Notre Dame by this artist held by our gallery, it is also an absolutely charming and now, historic depiction from the 1930s, of the most famous cathedral in France. This version uses more exaggerated brushstrokes with strong colours attesting to its expressionist roots. Notre Dame is one of the most widely recognised symbols of the city of Paris and the French nation. As the cathedral of the Archdiocese of Paris, Notre-Dame contains the cathedra of the Archbishop of Paris. Approximately 12 million people visit Notre-Dame annually, making it the most visited monument in the city. While undergoing renovation and restoration, the roof of Notre-Dame caught fire on the evening of 15 April 2019. Burning for around 15 hours, the cathedral sustained serious damage. The government of France hopes the reconstruction can be completed by Spring 2024, in time for the opening of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Unlike the actual cathedral, this artwork is in good condition, is newly framed and glazed and signed by the artist in the lower right hand corner. Upon request a video may be provided.
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
1930s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Original French Poster Artwork for Gala de Saint-Cyr à l’Opéra
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Original French Poster Artwork for Gala de Saint-Cyr à l’Opéra
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Verso
Medium: Watercolor on unframed paper
Size: 24.5 in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape with Orange Sky
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Earl Ray (1928-1998). Landscape with Orange Sky. ca. 1975. Oil on masonite panel measures 6.5 x 8.5 inches, 10.5 x 12.5 inches framed. Signed lowe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1953 Mid Century Modern Swedish Vintage Landscape Oil Painting - Rolling Greens
Located in Bristol, GB
ROLLING GREENS
Size: 60 x 66 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century modernist landscape painting that features a serene rural scene characterised by geometric simplicity an...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Book Club, Oil Painting
By Nick Savides
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Nick Savides took inspiration from a Book Club Bar on East 3rd Street in the East Village in New York City. Intrigued by its open-front design, he studie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
ANN ORAM R.S.W. (1956-) original signed impressionist oil painting SPANISH
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Ann Oram RSW (1956-) Scottish
TITLE: “Vejer De La Frontera Spain”
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 62cm x 52cm inc fram...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Xavier (Brother)" Hyperrealistic Young Man in Botanical Setting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Xavier (Brother)" is an original artwork by Alain Jean-Baptiste and measures 60"h x 48"w. This oil work on canvas reflects on the buildup and aftermath Jean-Baptis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Thames at Leigh by Moonlight - 19th Century Oil Painting of London 1851
By Henry Pether
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘The River Thames at Leigh by Moonlight’ by Henry Pether (1800-1880).
The painting is signed by the artist and dated 1851 and is presented in a bespoke gold metal leaf frame.
• Vi...
Category
1850s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pink Chiffon" Contemporary Landscape Painting
By Carol Young
Located in Westport, CT
This colorful contemporary landscape painting by Carol Young features a warm, vibrant palette and captures a rural scene. A cool blue-violet barn sits in a yellow-gold field and cast...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Huge Eastern Painting 4 Red Crowned Cranes Asian Wading in Water Bamboo Golden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Four Red Crowned Cranes wading in Bamboo Water
B Joseph, 20th century (French?)
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 52 x 64 inches
canvas: 48 x 60 inches
condition: very g...
Category
20th Century Aesthetic Movement Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mt Shasta Spring Stroll on the River Beneath the Mountain Original Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Mt Shasta Spring Stroll on the River Beneath the Mountain Original Oil on Linen
A solitary hiker on a trail with Northern California's Mt. Shasta in the distance by Joseph John Engl...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
A Spring Sunset, Original Oil Painting from 1952
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite painting by the artist Otto Lindberg (1880-1955) is a mesmerizing depiction of a spring sunset. Crafted in 1952, this piece stands as one of Lindberg's final paintings...
Category
1950s Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French 20th Century Abstract Expressionism Painting with Bold Pink and Orange
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Marie Deloume (French born 1942)
signed on back, inscribed verso with the artists Paris address
oil painting on paper stuck on canvas, unframed
...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Paper
Cours Saleya Nice Market Old Town, Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nice Market
by Robert Savary (French 1920-2000)
signed lower right
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 19.75 x 19.75 inches
Superb Post-Impressionist oil painting by the very well listed and highly sought after French painter, Robert Savary (1920-2000). The painting shows the famous Cours Saleya in Nice....which is the location for the famous flea market that happens there every week, as well as the fish and flower market too. Just yards from the blue sea of the Mediterranean, I can heartily recommend it! Incidentally, we bought this painting from a private home in Nice.
Figurative artist, Robert Savary is part of the New School of Paris . He was a student of Maurice Brianchon at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris, and won the prize of Casa de Velázquez in 1948.
Savary won the Prix de Rome in 1950. He taught in 1957 at the Regional School of Fine Arts Rouen (which he became the honorary director) while living in Paris and spending summers in Collioure, in the South of France. He was appointed Painter of the Navy in 1987.
For more than forty years, he is part of the group of exhibitors invited by Maurice Boitel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Day on the West Coast of Sweden by Swedish Impressionist Alfred Wahlberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Alfred Wahlberg was a distinguished Swedish landscape painter whose career spanned Germany, France, and Sweden. During his early years, he resided in D...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At The Waters Edge - Original 1968 Impressionist Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
At The Waters Edge - Original 1968 Oil on Canvas
Original 1968 oil painting of the oceans edge by Bay Area artist Helen McCollum (American). The viewer peeks through the vibrant gre...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Field Painting July 1 - Contemporary Landscape Tree Lilac Flowers, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary landscape in oil on panel, a peaceful outdoor scene in summer of delicately painted violet blue flowers in a green grassy field beneath a tree with dark green le...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Hot Air Balloon Flight, Geometric Landscape, Vivid Tones Hue Transitions, Canvas
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Hot Air Balloon Flight" is a painting by Spanish artist Natalia Roman. This series of abstract geometric paintings by Natalia Roman draws its inspiration from the sleek grids and cu...
Category
2010s Analytic Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
A Gentleman shooting in a landscape with a horse and spaniels
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Francis Sartorius (1775-1831)
A Gentleman shooting in a landscape with a horse and spaniels
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 11 1/2 x 16 in
Framed...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
18th century French Garden or Féte a Bride and musicians playing music
Located in Woodbury, CT
This enchanting 18th-century French fête galante captures the elegance and joy of aristocratic leisure, set amidst a lush garden adorned with flowers. A scene of refined celebration,...
Category
1780s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Philosophy of Tea - Still Life Landscape Pink Flowers Table Forest, 2020
Located in Kent, CT
In this landscape oil painting on canvas, a cheerful outdoor scene is set with a still life arrangement of bright pink gladiolus flowers in a clear glass vase beside a smaller orange...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape, Original Oil Paint on Canvas , Made in Italy By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Original Art
Ready to Hang
70x80 cm
2024
Marilina Marchica was born in Agrigento, where she works and lives,
After receiving her diploma at Liceo Artistico "Michelangelo" in Agrigen...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Soft Autumn Shades in Bunny Wood, original painting, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
This work comprises two panels depicting an autumn woodland. Although the paintings could be available separately, they form a continuous landscape when hung side by side, but also c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
L.T. Sola - Early 20th Century Oil, Alpine Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a gilt-effect frame. Signed. On board.
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Las Ramblas Barcelona Spain oil on canvas painting spanish urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Rambla de Barcelona
Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2017)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 28.7 x 23.6 in (73 x 60 cm)
Support: Canvas
Framing: Unframed
Style: Expressiv...
Category
1980s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset River Landscape with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Allan Water, Stirling"
by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
signed, lower corner
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 16 x 24 inches
framed: 21.5 x 29 inches
Fine quality antiqu...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Cows in a Meadow'. Oil painting by Louis Japy
Located in St. Albans, GB
Louis Aimé Japy
1840 - 1916
Oil painting on canvas
Fully signed
Picture Size: 21.25 x 28.25" (54 x 72cm)
Outside Frame Size: 28.25 x 35.25" (72 x 89cm)
Excellent age appropriate con...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Paris, Montparnasse" French Impressionist Street Scene Oil Painting on Canvas
By Anatol Bouchet
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by French artist, Anatol Bouchet. Bouchet was an French painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. This paint...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Over Looking the Delaware" Upper Bucks County PA Pastoral Landscape Scene
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful Impressionist summer pastoral scene of a colorful quaint home and barn in a green pastoral landscape. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic wa...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Green with Envy, Hudson Vallery, NY
By Paddy Cohn
Located in Hudson, NY
"Clouds, from all sides now, 2025"
Cohn delves into the enigmatic qualities of clouds—how they symbolize both the fleeting and the eternal. Cloud illusions are a sensory journey t...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Fine Large Antique Scottish Oil Painting Mother & Daughter in Highland Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Path
Scottish School, circa 1830's
Oil painting on canvas, framed
framed size: 34 x 28 inches
canvas: 26 x 20 inches
condition: very good and ready to hang
provenance: f...
Category
Early 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Let's Climb The Mountains - Large Colorful Abstract Nature Landscape on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maria C Bernhardsson's original artworks are influenced by the architecture and geometry of houses. Born in Sweden, Bernhardsson travels the world photographing and sketching houses ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Soft Moody Colors Cubist Oil Painting Sailing Boat in Blue Harbor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Maggy Clarysse (1931-2011)
Oil on thin canvas, unframed
10 x 7 inches
Initials Signed ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Hendrick MOMMERS (1623-1693) Haarlem Vegetable Market c1750
Located in Holywell, GB
After Hendrick MOMMERS (1623-1693) Haarlem Vegetable Market c1750
An early copy c1750, of an entertaining Dutch vegetable market scene in an Italianate landscape. The original was p...
Category
1750s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch Sailing Ships in Calm Harbour Signed Antique English Marine Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dutch Vessels Morning Light
by C.W. Smith (British, early 20th century)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 15.5 x 21.5 inches
canvas: 12 x 18 inches
inscribed verso
Provenance: pr...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sorolla's Garden, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A fountain flows in the center of an elegant garden in artist Sherri Aldawood's impressionist piece. "My dream came true when I visited the home and garden of one of my favorite artists of the past, Joaquin Sorolla, in Madrid," shares Sherri. Channeling her knowledge from studying Sorolla's masterful paintings, Sherri portrays the morning light and colors with soft illumination. The sunlit foliage gleams majestically in the background, sharpening the dimension and bringing the viewer's eye toward the rear of the scene.
About the Artist
Sherri Aldawood didn't intend to always paint flowers, but over time her love of gardens started to permeate her art. She focuses on the light and color of the flowers on the canvas. Sherri prefers alla prima, working with wet layers of paint instead of letting them dry. She keeps the paint as wet as possible by using walnut and clove oil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vale of the Conwy, Snowdonia - 19th Century Oil Painting Wales Landscape
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Vale of the Conwy’ by Samuel Lines (1778-1863). The painting – which depicts a single female figure in Welsh dress walking with a goat in an extensive mountain landscape – is signed...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Tones Triptych, Serene Gorgeous Clouds, Handmade Cyanotype Watercolor Paper
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of w...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, C Print, Co...
Irish Modernist Oil on Canvas Painting "Young Bathers" Children on the Beach
Located in Portland, OR
An important Irish Modernist oil on canvas painting by Henry Robertson Craig (1816-1984), titled "Young Bathers", circa 1960.
This very beautiful painting of children seated on the...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Huge 1800's Italian Romantic Golden Sunset Classical Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Classical Landscape, most likely a Grand Tour painting
Figures in an Extensive River Landscape
early 19th Century Italian School
Oil on canvas, 36" x 48" (91.5 x 122cm)
plus elab...
Category
Early 19th Century Baroque Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ocean III" (2022) Original Painting by Elena Degenhardt, Pastel Seascape
Located in Denver, CO
Elena Degenhardt's "Ocean III" is a poignant representation of the relentless and eternal spirit of the sea. Crafted in 2022, this exquisite original artwork measures 4 x 6 inches, rendered in soft pastel on paper, and comes elegantly framed in a custom 8 x 10-inch frame that complements the hues of the ocean's waters. Degenhardt's mastery in pastel techniques...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
Large Victorian Scottish Oil Painting Glencoe Mountains with Shepherd & Sheep
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Glencoe
Scottish School, late 19th century
indistinctly signed lower corner
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 30.5 x 42 inches
canvas: 24 x 36 inches
provenance: private...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Calm Evening Boats and Lighthouses in Gentle Dappled Waters Oil Painting
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Boats in Dappled Lights signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
dated 90'
size: 10.75 x 14.75 inches
oil painting on board, unframed
condition: the painting is in very good condition. I...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spring
Located in Riga, LV
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014)
Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seasons and flowers. In 1970 the significant place...
Category
1970s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Original Signed Oil Painting on Canvas, Landscape, Genre Scene, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This original oil painting on canvas is a traditional pastoral landscape, capturing a serene and idyllic rural scene. The composition is rich in earthy tones, with warm browns, green...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pacific Coast, Seascape, Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2019
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Pacific Coast...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Imaginary Geometric City. Second half of the 20th century
Located in Firenze, IT
Imaginary Geometric City.
Date: Second half of the 20th century
Medium: Gouache on cardboard
Dimensions: H 63 cm x W 48 cm approx.
Description: A network of soft shapes and wa...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Illustration Board, Cardboard
Original-Dahlias in Dusk-British Awarded Artist-Exhibition Collection-gold leaf
Located in London, GB
With strokes of Gold, Oil, Gesso and Acrylic, Shizico orchestrates a visual symphony of abstract expression in this on-going series [Landscape Memories]; it's a part of her [Sunlit S...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Continental School Vintage Original Oil Painting on board, Rural Landscape
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original vintage oil painting on board depicting a country landscape with a cottage, figures on a path with cattle, and children at a brook.
No Visible signature.
Presented in the vintage ornate gold frame...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Oil Painting of Cottage by a River in the Mountains of South Africa
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Oil Painting of Cottage by a River in the Mountains of South Africa, by South African Artist, Marthinus la Grange (1920-1999)
Art measures 18 x 12 inches
Frame measures 23...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Impressionist Signed Oil Busy Paris Street Scene Figures
By Claude Marin
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris
by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001)
signed and dated 88
oil on artist card stuck on board, unframed
board: 7.5 x 9.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris, France
Conditi...
Category
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Impressionist Lady in Red Dress Lounging In The Garden Shade
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady in Red
signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist
oil on board, unframed
painting: 14 x 11 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in N...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wildflowers
By Massimo Meda
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. The painting includes a stainless steel frame that has a built in black light; framed dimensions are approximately 37" x 29". The black light heightens the color experience of Meda's paintings.
Massimo Meda...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Impressionistic Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Winter Woods
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Woods is a beautiful impressionistic winter landscape snow scene. The painting is on a canvas panel and exudes the rich qualities of oil paint with bright strong color, a vari...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Toot Tug Boat, Beatons, Mantoloking, N.J." Landscape Shore Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist summer seashore scene of a tug boat and sailboats in Beatons, Mantolokings, New Jersey. Waltsak has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Backlight at Huémoz by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on Canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernest Voegeli is an artist who has found his path through a combination of solid technique and a clear, insightful approach to color, form, and composition. While his work is primar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
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.
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