Landscape Paintings
1910s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Gold Leaf
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Oil
17th Century Landscape Paintings
Oil
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Gouache
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1840s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1960s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Late 20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Mid-18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1840s Victorian Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Oil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Artist Benjamin Thomas depicts a luminous sky with tonal hues of grey with soft purple accents. Finally, he paints his favorite color in a sky painting. "My d...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1980s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1850s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1620s Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1890s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Cardboard
Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
A thickly textured palette knife painting of an old saguaro cactus standing against a blooming spring desert backdrop. "This painting was inspired by the incredible Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California," shares artist Lisa Elley. "It's where the Colorado and Mojave Deserts collide with amazing vistas and dazzling flowers."
About the Artist
Working almost exclusively with a palette knife, Lisa Elley maneuvers her artistic blade with an uncanny fluidity. Why paint only with the knife? She says, "when I paint with a brush, which I do occasionally, I tend to focus on the detail. With a palette knife I can't focus on the detail too much, so my paintings are looser, and more gestural, with bigger sweeps and strokes." This technique is called wet-on-wet. And it seems to be quite popular, as she has been bestowed the title "Knife Queen" by her facebook fans. Fun fact: Lisa's high school art teacher told her to study harder at math, as a career in art was "impossible."
Words that describe this painting: desert, Mojave, flowers, floral, spring, cactus, sun, mountains, sky, landscape, California, Joshua Tree, impressionism, landscape, western, representational, oil painting, purple
Desert Bloom...
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
1940s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Acrylic
1860s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Paper, Oil
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
Artist Comments
Golden autumn leaves blanket the paths of Central Park, setting the stage for a romantic stroll. A couple walks closely, sharing a blue umbrella while leaving a...
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1910s French School Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Gouache
Artist Comments
Capturing the vast beauty of nature, this painting showcases endless fields gently rising and falling beneath an expansive sky. Lush, undulating meadows, golden...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Linen, Oil, Panel
Early 18th Century Italian School Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
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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.