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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Turning Tide
By Robert Baart
Located in Boston, MA
Robert Baart graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1969. A year later in 1970, Baart received the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship for Alumni of the Museum s...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Splashdown
Located in Greenwich, CT
North Carolina native Jack Saylor received his degree in Art from Barton College in Wilson, North Carolina. Upon graduating he moved to Spain, then Italy w...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Palace Courtyard
Located in London, GB
Georges-Antoine Rochegrosse
French 1859 - 1938
The Palace Courtyard
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 26 ¾ x 19 ¾ inches (68 x 50 cm)
Ornate orientalist gilt frame (Image ...
Category
1890s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Winter Forest with Stream
By Emile Gruppe
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower right: Emile A. Gruppe
Emile Gruppe once said, “If you want exacting details in a painting, then you might as well look at a photograph. I make an impression on a canva...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Taking on a Pilot
By Frederick Mortimer Lamb
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed and dated lower right: F.M Lamb 1905
Provenance
Private collection, Massachusetts
Born in Middleboro, Massachusetts, Lamb, at age 17, attended the Massachusetts Normal Art S...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Manhattan Towers (East River)
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Signed lower left: Cucuel Signed and inscribed on verso: Cucuel / Manhattan Towers (East River)
Provenance
Private collection, Massachusetts
Born in San Francisco in 1875, Edward C...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Volpaia with Trees" realist expansive Tuscan landscape painted en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Volpaia with Trees" is a contemporary realist landscape of expansive Tuscan countryside painted en plein air. The medieval village of Volpaia can bee seen in the distance at the end...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, 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
Oil, Canvas
"Walking in the Vineyard" woman and dog walking in Tuscan countryside
By Ben Fenske
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Walking in the Vineyard" is a contemporary impressionist painting of a woman walking her dog through a Tuscan Vineyard.
Framed Dimensions: 51.25 x 67 inches
Ben Fenske (b. 1978)...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Morning Light - contemporary still-life window landscape room interior
By Mike Hall
Located in London, GB
unframed size: 35 x 30 cm
framed size: 40 x 35 cm
Artist Statement:
“My career in Film and Television design enabled me to travel extensively in Europe and the West Indies. During t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Open Door, Dogs Gowe- contemporary still-life window landscape room interior
By Mike Hall
Located in London, GB
unframed size: 35 x 30 cm
framed size: 40 x 35 cm
Artist Statement:
“My career in Film and Television design enabled me to travel extensively in Europe and the West Indies. During t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Point Lobos, Monterey County, California, Cypress Tree
By Lockwood de Forest
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Lockwood De Forest (American, 1850 - 1932)
Signed: L d F May 13 / 07 (Lower, Right)
Oil on Paperboard
9 5/8" x 14 1/8"
" Point Lobos ", 1907 (Titled, Lower Right)
Housed i...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Saint Front, Périgueux II" Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Painting
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Cathédrale Saint Front II
Acrylic on Canvas
62 x 65 cm
Disclaimer: Please be aware that some images automatically generated by 1stDibs do not accurately reflect the painting’s prop...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Saint Front, Périgueux" Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Painting
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Cathédrale Saint Front
Acrylic on Canvas
61 x 50 cm
Disclaimer: Please be aware that some images automatically generated by 1stDibs do not accurately reflect the painting’s proport...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Upstream
By Robert Baart
Located in Boston, MA
Robert Baart graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1969. A year later in 1970, Baart received the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship for Alumni of the Museum s...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Winter Ice
By Robert Baart
Located in Boston, MA
Robert Baart graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1969. A year later in 1970, Baart received the Clarissa Bartlett Traveling Scholarship for Alumni of the Museum s...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Torcello Postcard - Still Life Oil Painting Fruit Garden Trees, 2016
Located in Kent, CT
A light and airy, inviting outdoor scene with a still life arrangement of peach flowers in a pink and white patterned vase next to a painted fruit bowl and blue patterned tea cup, al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wood Line
By Robert Baart
Located in Boston, MA
M Fine Arts is honored to announce the addition of Robert Baart to our roster of contemporary artists. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1947, Baart’s work ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Bayou Teche Sunset
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Bayou Teche Sunset
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 36" x 48"
Framed Dimensions: 38" x 50"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morning Light, John Henry Dolph, Oil on Panel, Chickens in Landscape, Fowl
By John Dolph
Located in Wiscasset, ME
John Henry Dolph, best known as painter of domestic animals, especially cats, was born in 1835 in Fort Ann, New York. In 1841 Dolph's family moved to Ohio and in 1849 Dolph began an ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Morning by the Pond, John Henry Dolph, Realism, Oil on Panel, Ducks, Birds, Fowl
By John Dolph
Located in Wiscasset, ME
John Henry Dolph, best known as painter of domestic animals, especially cats, was born in 1835 in Fort Ann, New York. In 1841 Dolph's family moved to Ohio and in 1849 Dolph began an ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Summer Stroll, The Pantheon, Paris, France, Impressionist Oil, Ladies, Parasol
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Edouard Henry-Laurent was born in Paris in 1859. He exhibited in avant-garde galleries including Le Barc de Boutteville in 1894, 1896 and 1897, then at the Salon d'Automne in 1903 an...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Geer Mountain
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Geer Mountain
2024
oil on panel
15.5 x 39.5"
Eric Forstmann studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under the tutelage of Barnett Rubenstein and Henry Schwartz.
...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Tannerville Early Summer
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Tannerville Early Summer
2024
oil on panel
15.5 x 25"
Eric Forstmann studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under the tutelage of Ba...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Momentary Angevine
Located in Washington Depot,, CT
Momentary Angevine
2024
oil on panel
23.5 x 35.5"
Eric Forstmann studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston under the tutelage of Barnett Rubenstein and Henry Schwart...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Marseille By Yvonne Canu
By Yvonne Canu
Located in New Orleans, LA
Yvonne Canu
1921-2008 French
Marseille
Signed "CANU" on lower left
Oil on canvas
The picturesque French Riviera is presented in French Post-Impressionist Yvonne Canu's signature ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nada Extraño Nothing Strange - Contemporary Figurative Landscape Encaustic, 2024
By Cecile Chong
Located in Kent, CT
A peaceful landscape scene in shades of pale blue and light yellow accented with teal blue, yellow and orange sculptural details along the lower part of the composition.
Tall, grac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Encaustic, Panel
'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
Autumn Sunset
Located in New York, NY
In his oil painting, “Autumn Sunset, 1896,” John Francis Murphy paints a vibrant yellow sky above a tree displaying autumn foliage, grassland, and a small stream.
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Le Port de Martigues'. A Port in Martigues Provence, South of France. Oil paint
By Charles Malfroy
Located in St. Albans, GB
Charles MALFROY
French 1862 - 1918
Canvas size: 24 x 36" (60 x 90cm)
Outside Frame Size: 32 x 44" (82 x 112cm)
Inscribed on the reverse
Charles Malfroy was born on May 22nd 1862 i...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Path in the Mountains
Located in New York, NY
In his oil painting, “A Path in the Mountains,” Sanford Robinson Gifford paints a figure walking down a mountain trail lined with tall evergreens towards a forested bluff.
Category
1860s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Snowy Mountain Reds
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
'Diana, Goddess of the Chase' by Artist 17th Century, French School, Circa 1660
Located in Bruges, BE
Artist 17th Century
French School
Circa 1660
'Diana, Goddess of the Chase'
Signature: not signed
Medium: tempera on paper applied to oak panel
Dimensions: image size 23.5 x 18.5 cm...
Category
17th Century Baroque Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Egg Tempera, Wood Panel
NOVUM INCREMENTUM (New Growth)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (LR): L; on verso: D. Ligare/ 1988/2024
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape with an Owl (ATHENE NOCTUA) (Owl of Athena)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed (LR): L; on verso: D. Ligare/ 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Specific View (SCIENTIA, ARTE, VENUSTAS) (Knowledge, Skill, Beauty)
By David Ligare
Located in New York, NY
Signed on verso: D. Ligare/ 2024
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ennis Horses #5
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Encaustic, Oil
Early Sugaring
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1942
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vespe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Along the Annisquam
By John Terelak
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1942
John Charles Terelak is recognized as one of America's finest living impressionists. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, he received formal art instruction at the Vespe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rockport Artist Winter Landscape Painting Sunlight Glow Vermont
Located in Rockport, MA
This painting by Aldro T. Hibbard depicts a serene winter scene in Vermont, featuring his own home. The snow-covered landscape is soft, muted tones, with gentle light illuminating th...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tonalist Landscape
Located in Milford, NH
A fine tonalist landscape by American artist J. Francis Murphy (1853-1921). Murphy was born in Oswego, New York, he moved to Chicago in 1868, where his father was employed in the shipping industry. In Chicago, Murphy began working as a scene painter in a local theatre and was quickly promoted to lead his co-workers. Largely self-taught, his only training consisted of a few classes at the Chicago Academy of Design. There he became friends with Emil Carlsen and Theodore Robinson, and in 1873, Academy members elected him an Associate; a few weeks later, he became an Academician. His work was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, where he was inducted eleven years later.He won numerous prizes, medals and honors for his landscape paintings, which are said to rank with those of George Inness, Alexander Wyant, and Homer Martin. Although his world was a limited one, his landscapes captured the forms of nature and the subtle nuances of the scene. Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of Camille Corot (1796-1875), one of the original Barbizon...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Port de Honfleur", 20th Century Oil on Canvas
Located in Madrid, ES
JOAQUÍN PEINADO
Spanish, 1898 - 1975
PORT DE HONFLEUR
signed and dated "Peinado / 59" (lower right)
oil on canvas
28-2/3 x 36-1/4 inches (73 x 92 cm.)
unframed
Joaquín Peinado (Ronda, July 19, 1898 - Paris, February 13, 1975) was a Spanish painter, cultivator of the Cubist style, one of the most outstanding representatives of the Spanish School of Paris. In 1915 he entered the Higher School of Commerce in Seville where he would remain until 1918, the year in which he abandoned his commerce studies to enter the Higher School of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, where he would be a student of Julio Romero de Torres...
Category
1950s Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ridge View Wyatt Mt, Blue Sky, Clouds, Trees, Virginia Mountains
Located in Kent, CT
The densely treed forest and mountain ledges of Hennen's Virginia home are the subject for this rich, highly detailed landscape painting. Recording the changing light from the mounta...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Old Hemlock Stand and New Growth, Olive Green, Gold, Beige Virginia Forest
Located in Kent, CT
The densely treed forest and mountain ledges of Hennen's Virginia home are the subject of this rich, highly detailed landscape painting. An enormous boulder presiding over a deep gro...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Rabbit Hole Singularity, Bunny, Flowers, Pink, Teal Surreal Botanical Landscape
By Peter Hamlin
Located in Kent, CT
A futuristic rabbit hybrid is the focus of this fantastical landscape in acrylic ink on canvas by Peter Hamlin. The rabbit is whimsical and surreal, held in the center of a flower. M...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Trails End, Blue, Indigo, Cobalt, Peach, Leaves Abstract Apricot Pattern
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in luminous light pale peach, teal, olive green, ochre and blue on a light blue background with a dark indigo leaf pat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Peachy, Peaches, Green Pine Trees, Pink Tulips, Botanical, Fruit, Lake Landscape
Located in Kent, CT
A bright and inviting interior scene with a still life arrangement of pink, white and orange flowers with green leaves on a table with peaches in a white and blue painted fruit bowl....
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Sussex landscape oil painting of a harvest
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Henry John Kinnaird
British, (1861-1929)
View near Cooksbridge, Sussex
Oil on canvas, signed & further inscribed verso
Image size: 15.5 inches x 23.5 inches
Size including frame: 23 inches x 31 inches
A pleasing landscape scene of a harvest near Cooksbridge, Sussex by Henry John Kinnaird. Figures are shown harvesting a crop in the foreground; whilst in the field beyond others stack sheaves onto a hay cart. A cottage and other buildings can be seen nestled amongst trees to the right. Cooksbridge is a village situated in the parish of Hamsey in Sussex a short distance from Lewes. It sits on the edge of the South Downs National Park, England’s newest national park which was designated in 2010.
Henry John Kinnaird was a landscape artist born on 7 June, 1861 at Old Church, St Pancras in London. He was the eldest son of Francis Henry Kinnaird (1836-1916), who was an artist and his wife Charlotte née Lee. His brother Francis Joseph ‘Wiggs’ Kinnaird (1875-1915) also became an artist. Both were probably tutored by their father as their style and subject matter are similar, but Henry is also known to have taught his brother art. He spent his time on painting trips around the country and visited areas such as Buxton in Derbyshire where he met his future wife.
He made his debut at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1880 from his parents address at 98 Brecknock Road, Islington with a work entitled ‘In the Green Woods, near Buxton’. By the time of his marriage to Alice Mary Leyland on 6 Feb, 1883 at Buxton he had established himself as a full time artist. The couple spent their early married life at 38 Leighton Road, Camden and had 2 children together.
In 1886, he began exhibiting at the Royal Academy where he continued to show his work over the years. He moved to Chingford, Essex around 1887 where he was inspired by the views in his locality. Kinnaird painted in both oils and watercolours in a broad, naturalistic style similar to John Horace Hooper. Many of his works are of harvest scenes such as this fine example.
After the death of his wife Alice in 1890, he married Mary Helen Cooke on 6 September, 1892. The couple went on to have 2 children. By 1901, he had relocated with his family to Worthing in Sussex where he lived at Rusholme on Homefield Road. After staying there for a few more years he moved to Elm Croft, Burpham, Arundel before moving to Ringmer near Lewes in Sussex.
He spent the final years of his life living at The Old Cottage in Ringmer, where he died on 26 April, 1929. An example of his work is held by Chelmsford Museum.
Presentation: The work is housed in a new English made gilt frame which is in excellent condition.
Condition: As with all of our original antique oil paintings, this work is offered in ready to hang gallery condition, having just been professionally cleaned, restored and revarnished.
© Benton Fine Art
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waiting It Out
Located in Cape Town, ZA
Presented in conjunction with the inaugural HEAT Winter Arts Festival, for which the theme is Common Ground, 'as we see it' is a group exhibition that highlights the work of twelve a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Welsh landscape animal oil painting of cattle with figures
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Henry Brittan Willis
British, (1810-1884)
Midday Rest
Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)59
Image size: 18.5 inches x 31 inches
Size including frame: 26.25 inches x 38.75 inches
A b...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood
"Gap of Dunloe, Evening" Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
A perspective of the Gap of Dunloe in the evening light, this painting full of greens represents a highlight of Ireland's beautiful outdoors landscapes. It is the first of a series o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Gap of Dunloe, Day" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
A perspective of the Gap of Dunloe in the afternoon light, this painting full of greens represents a highlight of Ireland's beautiful outdoors landscapes. It is the first of a series...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Gap of Dunloe, Morning" Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
A perspective of the Gap of Dunloe in the morning light, this painting full of greens represents a highlight of Ireland's beautiful outdoors landscapes. It is the first of a series o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Acid Rain, Pale Peach Leaf Violet, Light Grass Green, Gold Abstract Pattern
By Gabe Brown
Located in Kent, CT
Carefully ordered patterns, geometric shapes and delicate lines in pale peach, light blue, and pale violet on a light green background with hints of golden orange and greenish yellow...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Plaids and Dots, Blue, Green, Pink Stripes, Brown Hills Abstract Horizon
Located in Kent, CT
Striations of bright blue, teal green and pink in vertical stripes create an abstract horizon line suggesting a vibrant striped sky over a vast mountain range in golden brown with hi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Resin, Oil, Panel, Ballpoint Pen
"Irish Promenade" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Acrylic on Canvas with light blue and layered green, this composition is a representation of Ireland and its intimate connection to music, mixing elements of Irish nature alongside m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Irish Ballad" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Landscape Painting of Ireland
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Acrylic on Canvas with vibrant blue and green, this composition is a representation of Ireland and its love for music.
This painting was recently showcased in Dublin, alongside oth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
L'entree du port - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Paul Emile Lecomte
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel impressionist seascape circa 1920 by Paul Emile Lecomte. The work depicts the entrance to a busy port as the sun begins to set. The dying light is illuminating th...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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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).
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