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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Period: 1960s
Period: 1880s
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Signed Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boy in a Meadow (1885) by Elias Erdtman
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elias Erdtman (1862-1945) Sweden
Boy in a Meadow (1885)
oil on canvas laid board
unframed 13 x 28.5 cm (5.1 x 11.2 inches)
framed 24.5 x 39 cm (approx. 9.6 x 15.4 inches)
Initia...
Category
1880s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Canvas
Milford Zornes Original Watercolor - From Dana Point
By James Milford Zornes
Located in Phoenix, AZ
California Image by well known watercolorist Milford Zornes (1908-2008).
This work in mint condition, is signed lower right “Zornes,” and dated ‘67.
The watercolor is also signed on the verso ‘Milford Zornes, ANA’
and titled “From Dana Point.” This painting is unframed and
measures 21"h x 27"w. It’s a beautiful depiction of Dana Point in Orange County.
A prominent artist in the watercolor movement known as the California Style, Milford Zornes became especially known for his application of watercolor in broad brush strokes to large sheets of paper. He was born in Camargo, Oklahoma, and moved to Los Angeles while a teenager. In Santa Maria, California, he enrolled in Santa Maria Junior College, where he had art instruction from Stanley Breneiser and lived for a period of time with him and his wife, Babs Breneiser who was an art teacher at the local high school.
Then at age 20, he began adventurous travel that took him across the United States that had him working on the docks of New York City, and then shipping out to Denmark as a merchant seaman, a job that eventually led to a tour of Europe. He returned to Los Angeles by 1930, and studied at the Otis Art Institute with F. Tolles Chamberlain, and at Pomona College where Millard Sheets was his teacher. Throughout the 1930s, he was exhibiting widely including the 1938 Art Institute of Chicago International Watercolor Exhibition, Seventeenth Year.
Zornes did murals during World War II for the Federal Arts Project of the W.P.A., and was a United States Army artist correspondent in Burma and India. Because of the distinction of his W.P.A. and other wartime artwork, he was honored with a one-person exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC, and one of his paintings was selected by President and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt for the White House Collection. This attention brought him much positive publicity.
After the war, he lived in several locations in California and in 1963, Milford and his wife Pat, bought the Maynard Dixon summer home and studio in Salt Lake City, Utah from Edith Hamlin...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"BLUEBONNET HILL" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FRAMED 15.75 X 17.75
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pedro Lazcano
(1909-1970)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 8 x 10
Frame Size: 15.75 x 17.75
Medium: Oil
"Bluebonnet Hills"
Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970)
I was always curious about Pedro La...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th century English River Scene on the Medway
Located in Woodbury, CT
This painting, titled On the Medway, is by George Stanfield Walters (1838–1924), a renowned British maritime artist celebrated for his atmospheric depictions of coastal and river sce...
Category
1880s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Vintage Signed American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive signed 1967 abstract landscape. Appears to be an abstract coastal scene. Framed.
Category
1960s Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Signed American Modernist Framed Landscape Architectural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American 19th Century Forest Pond Interior Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely framed 19th century forest interior landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Ready to hang. Image size, 13"L by 17"H inches painting alone.
Category
1880s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Open Sails
Located in Soquel, CA
Richly colored landscape of sailboats on the water at Gloucester Harbor, Massachusetts. Signed "De Geno" in lower right corner. Presented in a gilt wood frame. Image size: 17.5" L x ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Vintage Romantic Landscape Oil Painting on Panel, Signed G. Holman, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This original vintage oil painting on panel presents a peaceful romantic landscape in the tradition of 19th-century pastoral scenes. A lone tree stands bare against a glowing amber s...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rock Tombs Outside Jerusalem - Oil Paint by Carl Schirm - 1884
Located in Roma, IT
Carl Schirm was a German painter of landscapes. Between 1880-1881 he made, together with Eugen Bracht, a long journey to Egypt, Palestine and Syria, at the end of which emerged lands...
Category
1880s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with Lake - Oil on Canvas by Giuseppe Raggio - 1884
Located in Roma, IT
Signed and dated in the right hand corner.
Beautiful and impressive painting by the italian painter Giuseppe Raggio, both in size and atmosphere, representing a Lake in the countrys...
Category
1880s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Group by the Sea" - Abstracted Impasto Seascape by Richard Lofton
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful and expressive abstracted seascape with thick impasto dynamically swirling together by California artist Richard Lofton (American, 1908-1966). Signed and dated "RICHARD LOFT...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Burlap
Rooster and Hens in the Barnyard William Baptiste Baird (U.S./France 1847-1917)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Rooster and Hens in the Barnyard
William Baptiste Baird (U.S./France 1847-1917)
Oil on panel
Signed lower right "W. Baird"
12 1/4 x 9 inches
A stunning example of William Baptiste...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Silvery Days, Madison Square Park, New York City" Impressionist Street Scene
By Guy Wiggins
Located in New York, NY
Guy C. Wiggins
Silvery Days, Madison Square Park, 1962
Signed lower left; signed, titled "Silvery Days" and dated on the reverse
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Guy Carleton Wiggins is...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Manila, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception', Intramuros General Luna Street
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right indistinctly, ( A.B. Delarova? ) and dated, '68''. Inscribed verso, 'Manila, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception viewed from General Luna Street'.
A deftly-painted, tonalist oil painting showing of this elegant section of Manila with the silhouette of the dome of the cathedral as viewed from the far end General Luna Street. This minor basilica (Catedral Metropolitana de la Inmaculada Concepción), also known as Manila Cathedral, is located in Intramuros, the historic walled city located in the heart of today's modern city of Manila. It is dedicated to the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Impressionist Fishing Harbor Beach Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist coastal seascape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 22H by 18L.
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Expressionist Signed Original Sunset Horse Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage modernist expressionist sunset oil painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 27.5L x 20H. Signed.
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Quarter Street - Mid Century New Orleans Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Street scene in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana by New Orleans artist Melba Hildreth Dukes Gianelloni (American/Great Britain, 1914-2012). ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Earthly Paradise - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 157.5x113.5.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Golden Eagle of Scottish Highlands - Scottish art bird landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning Scottish oil painting is by noted landscape artist Douglas Falconer. Painted circa 1960 the composition is of a seated golden eagle in a mountainous highland landscape....
Category
1960s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 1880’s Irish Signed Oil Cottage & Figure in Highland Mountain Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Cottage
Irish School, 19th century
signed and dated 1888
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 30 x 50.5inches
provenance: private collec...
Category
1880s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paysage de l'Oise - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Victor Vignon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by French impressionist painter Victor Alfred Paul Vignon. The piece depicts a view of scenery in Oise, a department in the north of France, ...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Mid Century Mod Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Winter Stream Oil Paint Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Peaceful winter landscape of a calm stream winding through a snowy forest by Lorenz Griffith (American, 1889-1968). Signed "Lorenz Griffith" lower left. Titled "A Winter Stream - Virginia" and dated 1960 on verso. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 23.25"H x 29"W.
Lorenz E. Griffith was born in Indiana; he was active/lived in North Carolina, Florida, Indiana and many places across the United States. Lorenz Griffith is known for luminist landscapes and portraits. He was painted in the style of the Florida Highwaymen...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Framed Mid Century Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Central Park N.Y. Looking South East With General Motors Bldg." Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A fine and pertinent example of Nathan Hoffman's charming New York City scenes. Here we find a Central Park pathway looking South East and the General Motors Bulging along with some ...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Glass, Oil, Board
Vintage American Impressionist Signed Beach Scene Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American impressionist beach scene. A nice summer view with a figures playing near the shore. Signed lower right illegibly. Framed handsomely in a wide gold ...
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century San Francisco Bay Seascape Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century San Francisco Bay seascape oil painting by California artist Hartzell Harrison Ray (American, 1896-1991). Signed "H. Ray" lower right and on verso. Texture added...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Large American Modernist Oil Painting Baseball Game the Tryout Sidney Goodman
Located in Surfside, FL
Sidney Goodman (1936-2013)
The Tryout
Oil on Canvas
Hand signed lower right
Dated 1965
Provenance: bears labels verso from Terry Dintenfass Gallery (partial label)
George Krevsky Ga...
Category
1960s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Studies of Clouds, a double-sided oil on panel by Henri Martin (ca. 1886)
By Henri Martin
Located in PARIS, FR
This rare double-sided oil on panel, probably painted during the summer of 1886, is an interesting testimony to the artist's style development. It present two complementary paintings...
Category
1880s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
19th century Fall English landscape with figures on a path in the highlands
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Autumn/Fall landscape by one of Englands finest landscape painters.
Born as Benjamin Williams, the artist added the surname Leader (his Father’s middle name) to distingui...
Category
1880s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Balinese Landscape - Tempera by I Ketut Soki - 1960s
By I Ketut Soki
Located in Roma, IT
Balinese Landscape by Ketut Soki – Tempera on Paper, Signed, 20th Century
This vibrant tempera painting by renowned Balinese artist Ketut Soki captures the lush tropical scenery and...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Paper
'Paris in the Rain', Large French School Post-Impressionist oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Marda' (French, 20th century) and inscribed verso 'Street Scene by Marda #4'.
A substantial, mid-century oil cityscape showing a view of a rainy Parisian boulev...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Beach Scene Monogrammed Nature Study Modernist Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 16L x 20H.
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Washing Day in Coastal Landscape - Scottish Victorian Impressionist oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Scottish Impressionist Victorian oil painting is by noted artist Joseph Henderson. Painted circa 1880 it is entitled Washing Day. The composition is of two women laying o...
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Abstract Fall Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Near Bourron, France" Gilbert Munger, Barbizon School, Countryside Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Gilbert Munger
Near Bourron, France, circa 1886
Signed lower left
Oil on panel
13 x 18 inches
Gilbert Munger was born on April 14, 1837 in Madison, Connecticut. He showed interest ...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Untitled (Cafe Interior), Shimshon Holzman
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Shimshon Holzman (1907-1986)
Title: Untitled (Cafe Interior)
Year: 1962
Medium: Watercolor and graphite on wove paper
Size: 27.75 x 19.75 inches
...
Category
1960s Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
"RUINAS EN EL OESTE DE TEXAS" RUINS IN WEST TEXAS
By Dalhart Windberg
Located in San Antonio, TX
Dalhart Windberg
Born 1933
Texas Artist
Image Size: 24 x 36
Frame Size: 32 x 44
Medium: Oil Applied by Palette Knife
Dated 1969
"Ruinas en el oeste de Texas" Ruins in West Texas
Biography
Dalhart Windberg Born 1933
Born in Goliad County, Texas, and living in Georgetown, Texas, (2010), Dalhart Windberg is a painter of romantic landscapes inspired by his travels throughout Texas, Mexico, Spain, Greece and European countries. He was named after a popular Country and Western singer...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Original Oil on Board, Francis Hurst Eastwood. "A Tranquil Day's Fishing"
Located in Mere, GB
Francis Hurst Eastwood 1855 - 1944.
Huddersfield born painter of rural landscapes, exhibitor at the Royal Academy, Royal Institue and Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool. Lived in Haslem...
Category
1880s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Bucolic Landscape”
By Joseph Thors
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a very well executed and highly detailed oil on mahogany wooden panel painting by one the the leading Victorian artists of the day, Joseph Thors. Sign...
Category
1880s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Horse Guards, London - Mid Century French Naif Parade City Street Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1960's oil on canvas by Paul Lucien Dessau depicting the famous entrance to Horse Guards in central London, with mounted Guardsmen on watch and parade.
The work is signe...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York City Streets
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original mid century impressionist painting depicting midtown Manhattan and a view of the Empire State Building by Chinese American artist Chuck Fee Wong. Benjaman Gallery...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Portrait Painting Gathering Flowers Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage impressionist oil painting by Pierre Eugène Duteurtre (1911 - 1989). Oil on canvas, circa 1970. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wedding (Authenticated Clementine Hunter Framed Black Folk Art Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
If you have been watching the prices of Clementine Hunter's work over the past two years, you will know that they have soared to astronomical height...
Category
1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Otto Von Thoren, Pastoral Landscape With Farmer Crossing A Ford
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century oil painting by Austrian artist Otto von Thoren (1828-1889) depicts three horses pulling a cart across a shallow ford. Von Thoren was a celebrated painter of l...
Category
1880s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Edward Robert Smythe, Figures & Horses On A Beach With Buildings
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century oil painting by English artist Edward Robert Smythe (1810-1899) depicts a picturesque bay with buildings, fishing boats, figures and horses. Smythe was a maste...
Category
1880s English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Young Woman Portrait Landscape Framed Oil Painting
By Leon Richet
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist landscape oil painting by Leon Richet (1847 - 1907). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 22 by 29 inches overall and 15 by 20 painting alone.
Category
1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sleeping Lady Mountain" Image 12 x 16 Frame: 19 x 23
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas
(1910-1973)
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 12 x 16
Frame Size: 19 x 23
Medium: Oil on Canvas
"Sleeping Lady Mountain" Iztaccihuatl, Volcano in Mexico
Biography
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973)
Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officers lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas.
From
the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's
Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained
one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works
remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of
the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the
state. One of the first Mexican-American painters to become
widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President
Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam
Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives,
and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Coastal Clouds Sunrise Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
A dynamic landscape featuring a beautiful sunrise reflecting on storm clouds above the quiet shoreline by Santa Cruz artist Don Hannan (American 20th c). An Airplane flies into the s...
Category
1960s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
"Hill Country Pond" Texas Hill Country
Located in San Antonio, TX
R.D. Enright "Hill Country Pond"
(1921 - 1983)
Texas
Image Size: 24 x 30
Frame Size: 31 x 37
Medium: Oil
Biography
R.D. Enright (1921 - 1983)
Roland...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of the Towers of Chartres Cathedral in Acrylic on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
View of the Towers of Chartres Cathedral in Acrylic on Artist's Board
Colorful, idealistic representation of Chartres Cathedral and the surrounding area by Ben Venezky (American, 18...
Category
1960s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Illustration Board
Rene Portocarrero
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Rene Portocarrero, Cuban (1912 - 1985)
Title: Ciudad de la Habana, 1961
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 34 x 24 inches
Provenance:
Private Cuban Collection in South Florida....
Category
1960s Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century Canadian snow covered landscape, Halliburton Highlands Ontario
Located in Woodbury, CT
Outstanding Oil on board a snow-covered Canadian landscape of the Haliburton Highlands near Ontario.
Andrew B Phin is a painter, who is listed as a 20th-century Canadian painter of ...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vase of Flowers - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1968.
Hand signed and dated.
Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 44x34.
Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1,...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
American Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Mid Century Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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