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Landscape Paintings For Sale
Style: Modern
Style: Minimalist
An Early Morning Light, Isle of Gigha
Located in Belgravia, London, London
An Early Morning Light, Isle of Gigha
by John Lowrie Morrison - "Jolomo" OBE
Scottish born 1948
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 16 x 16 inches
Framed size: 25.5 x 25.5 inches
Signed low...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1957 Mid Century Modern Expressive Coastal Landscape Oil Painting - Black Boat
Located in Bristol, GB
BLACK BOAT
Oil on board
Size: 63 x 83 cm (including frame)
An expressive mid-century modernist style coastal landscape painting, executed in oil onto board and dated 1957.
The comp...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century Fields of Wheat Landscape - Oil on Canvas-Wrapped Illustration Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Fields of Wheat Landscape - Oil on Canvas-Wrapped Illustration Board
Idyllic landscape of a path winding through a field of wheat, punctua...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Large 1960's Modernist Signed Oil Painting Venice Grand Canal Atmospheric Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Grand Canal, Venice
Alvarez ( Mid 20th Century)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 25 x 33 inches
canvas: 20 x 28 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1967 Vintage Mid-Century Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Nature Dwellings
Located in Bristol, GB
NATURE DWELLINGS
Size: 42.5 x 68 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed semi-abstract composition, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1967.
In this abstract nature landscape...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Antique American Abstract Landscape Framed Vintage Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Through the woods
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Blue Pacific Foamy Shorelines, Horizontal Calm Seascape, Minimal Waterscape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Pacific Foamy Shoreline" is a handmade cyanotype print portraying a smooth wave reaching the shore.
Details:
+ Title: Pa...
Category
2010s Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Paper
1940s Modernist Oil Painting – Adobe Church Landscape, New Mexico Southwest Art
Located in Denver, CO
This evocative vintage oil painting from the 1930s–1940s captures a classic adobe church in New Mexico, likely inspired by the historic San Francisco de Asís Mission Church in Rancho de Taos. Painted by Denver modernist Paul K...
Category
1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Ashcan School Nocturnal Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique original nocturnal cityscape oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1920. Signed illegibly. Image size, 12L x 16H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
St Tropez Harbor France Large 1970's French Modernist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
St Tropez
French Modernist artist, indistinctly signed
circa 1970
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 13 x 37 inches
canvas: 12 x 36 inches
provenance: private collection, France
conditio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
St Catherine’s Chapel Fleet Chesil Beach & Portland From Abbotsbury Hill Dorset
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Joseph Edward Hennah.
Welsh ( b.1896 - d.1963 ).
St Catherine’s Chapel, The Fleet, Chesil Beach & Portland From Abbotsbury Hill. Dorset.
Oil On Canvas.
Signed Lower Right.
Image size...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mountain lake by Schaufelberger - Oil on paper 24x36 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on cardboard
Category
1910s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Coastal Landscape Oil Painting - Moonlit Sea
Located in Bristol, GB
MOONLIT SEA
Size: 34 x 47 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
An atmospheric mid-century abstract coastal landscape, executed in oil onto board.
The composition presents a seascape w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Early 20th Century Landscape -- Columbia Blue Mountain
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mountain Landscape by Antioqueño, Medellín painter Humberto Valencia Chaves (Columbian, 1891-1971). Signed "Valencia Chaves" lower left. Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Ima...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board
Stylish Hawaiian Luau Oil Painting by Listed artist Mario Larrinaga (1895-1979)
Located in Baltimore, MD
Mario Larrinaga was born in Baja California in 1895 and moved with his brother to Los Angeles in 1909. He had no formal training in art, but had natural talent that was noticed by local movie studios. He was hired by Universal Studios as a designer, art director and creator of background scenes. He produced some of the background effects for King Kong in 1933. After a career in set design and illustration he focused on painting for pleasure in California, Mexico and Hawaii. He belonged to local art clubs and exhibited his works often.
This stylized modernist work was likely created around 1960. It is oil on wood panel and of a horizontal format, 18” x 36”. It portrays a procession of seemingly Hawaiian natives...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Abstract Landscape" Original Paint on Cotton Canvas, By Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
mixed media on canvas 97x37 cm
this artwork have a frame
47x110 cm
Marilina Marchica, born in 1984, was born in Agrigento, where she lives and works. She graduated in Pai...
Category
2010s Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
Sunlit Garden Path with Blooming Cherry Blossoms Vibrant Green Foliage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jill Jackson (British, contemporary)
Title: Sunlit Garden Path
Medium: gouache on artist paper, unframed
Painting : 25.5 x 18 inches
Provenance: all the painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
North African Orientalist Scene Man on Horseback with Dogs outside City Building
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Orientalist Scene
European artist, late 20th century
possibly a copy of an earlier work judging from the style
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 24 x 20 inches
provenance: private col...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Country House by Fernand Blondin - Oil on Canvas - 50x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Fernand Blondin (1887-1967) was a Swiss painter and teacher, celebrated for his depictions of idyllic rural life, interiors, female nudes, portraits, still-lifes, religious subjects ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Coastal Cottages', Mid-century Massachusetts Woman Artist, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Swinson' for Marjorie E.G. Swinson (American, born circa 1904) and painted circa 1955; additionally signed, verso, 'Marjorie E. G. Swinson'.
Marjorie Swinson...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Modernist Abstract Coastal Harbor Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted American modernist harbor oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 16H by 20L.
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farm in the Valley - Plein Air California Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Farm in the Valley - Plein Air California Landscape
Beautiful mid century landscape of a California farm by Baumgardner (American, 20th Century). The viewer stands on a dirt road, w...
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blooming Dandelions and Wild Tulips, Illustration Style, Mediterranean Flowers
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Blooming Dandelions and Wild Tulips" is an abstract expressionist painting by Romina Milano where a landscape of black gestures unfolds across colorful brushstrokes infused with raw...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor
Huge French Modernist 20th Century 2 x Oil Paintings Rolling Provence Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape by Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French, 1927–2020)
This stunning oil on canvas diptych presents an expansive and vibrant Provence landscape by renowned French artist H...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique French Impressionist Paris Street Scene Framed Exhibited Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large and powerful French modern street scene. A paris view by Claude Aliotti (1925 - 1989). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 18"L x 24"H.
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumnal landscape by Louis François Cabanes - Oil on canvas 54x65 cm
By Louis François Cabanes
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas sold without frame
Louis François CABANES is an artist born in France in 1867 and died in 1947. His works have been sold at public auction 62 times, mainly in the Pai...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Charles Burk– American (1947-)
Title: Doorway, old Building
Year: unknown
Medium: Watercolor on watercolor paper
Size: 10 x 15 inches.
Framed size: 19 x 23.5 inches
Signatu...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Mountain landscape with chalets - Oil on paper 19x21 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on cardboard
Unsigned work
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
San Francisco Cable Car WPA Artist Adolf Dehn Modernist Art Gouache Oil Painting
By Adolf Dehn
Located in Surfside, FL
ADOLF ARTHUR DEHN (American, 1895-1969)
San Francisco Bay Area street scene, with Trolley, Streetcar, Cable Car with bay and Alcatraz Island in background.
Hand signed LRC.
Sight 19" x 15", overall 23" x 19".
Adolf Dehn (November 22, 1895 – May 19, 1968) was an American artist known mainly as a lithographer. Throughout his artistic career, he participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including regionalism, social realism, and caricature. A two-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he was known for both his technical skills and his high-spirited, droll depictions of human foibles.
Adolph Dehn was born in 1895 in Waterville, Minnesota. He began creating artwork at the age of six, and by the time of his death had created nearly 650 images.
Dehn went to the Minneapolis School of Art (known today as the Minneapolis College of Art and Design), where he met and became a close friend of Wanda Gag. In 1917 he and Gág were two of only a dozen students in the country to earn a scholarship to the Art Students League of New York. He was drafted to serve in World War I in 1918, but declared himself a conscientious objector and spent four months in a guardhouse detention camp in Spartanburg, SC and then worked for eight months as a painting teacher at an arm rehabilitation hospital in Asheville, NC. Later, Dehn returned to the Art Students League for another year of study and created his first lithograph, The Harvest.
In 1921 Dehn's lithographs were featured in his first exhibition at Weyhe Gallery in New York City. From 1920 to 1921 in Manhattan, he was connected to New York's politically left-leaning activists. In 1921, he went to Europe. In Paris and Vienna he belonged to a group of expatriate intellectuals and artists, including Andrée Ruellan, Gertrude Stein, and ee cummings...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil
"Washington Street" Modern Abstract Warm Toned Downtown City Street Scene
Located in Houston, TX
Modern warm toned downtown city street scene by Texas-based artist Herb Mears. The work features a variety of building facades including a grill, bar, and wholesale store. Signed in ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Snowy farm in Switzerland by Christian Axtmann - Oil on canvas 37x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 47x65 cm
Signed Christian Axtmann, Swiss artist from the 19th and 20th century. 8 artworks from him were sold in public auctions...
Category
1910s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Ledge" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Upstate New York Country Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
The Ledge, 1936-37
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 52 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artist...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20th Century French Signed Oil South of France Fishing Nets Drying in Harbor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Drying the Nets
French School, mid 20th century
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 13 x 18 inches
board: 10.5 x 15
provenance: private collection, France
condition: might benefit f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Modernist Large Oil Painting Autumn Trees in Provence Landscape d. 2002
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Autumn Provence
by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017)
signed and dated 2002
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 25.5 x 21 inches
provenance: private collection...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s
Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse), c. 1930s, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, signed lower right; presented in a newer silver painted frame
About the Painting
Writing about an exhibition of Charles W. Adams’ work at the Eighth Street Art Gallery in the mid-1930s, Emily Grenauer observed in The World-Telegram that the artist’s paintings were “distinguished for their solid form, well organized design and sumptuous color” and the art critic for The Herald Tribune found Adam’s work “a strong, formal realization of his subject . . . he paints with vital emphasis on structure and composition.” Although we do not know which works these critics referenced, it is likely they were writing about paintings like Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse). With its carefully designed reality, strong angles, solid forms, and well-disciplined puffs of smoke in the background, Adams presents a highly structured version of the Greenwich Village landmark, the Jefferson Market Library, which was a courthouse at the time Adams completed this work. The Jefferson Market Library was a prized subject for downtown painters, including the Ashcan School painter, John Sloan, the modernist, Stuart Davis, and the precisionist, Francis Criss...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School New York City Modernist Central Park View Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist central park, new york city oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvasboard . Image size, 18H by 24L.
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Warmth of the Desert" - Mid-Century Desert Landscape with Wildflowers
By Charles O. Fuson
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful, historic painting of the California desert in bloom by listed Santa Cruz artist Charles O. Fuson (American, 1898-1981). Signed "C.O. Fuson" lower left. Titled, signed on v...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard
Huge French Modernist Oil Sunny Garden Landscape with French Chairs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Jardin
Jeanon Pitre (French contemporary)
signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 51 x 38 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: overall very good
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Backlight at Belmont 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
Seascape : Animated Beach in Normandy - Oil On Canvas Hansigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean-Jacques RENÉ
Seascape : Animated Beach in Normandy
Original oil painting on canvas
Hansigned
54 x 65 cm (c. 21 x 26 inch)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Large, 1950s, Oil on Masonite Painting of a Michigan Harbor by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A lovely summer day in a ca. 1950s Lake Michigan harbor, perhaps in Saugatuck, Douglas or at Oxbow! This is a large oil on Masonite painting by notable artist Francis Chapin that is...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Changing Everything Forever: River #7 bright colorful abstract landscape
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Changing Everything Forever: River #7
Exuberant brushwork, bright colorful abstract landscape
Acrylic, w some dirt, some grass, on canvas.
Painted at the Blackstone-Seekonk River.
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
You are my Light (Oil Painting, Impasto, Impressionism, Colorful, Vibrant, Warm)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Genevieve Hamel
You are my Light
Oil on Wood Panel
Year: 2024
Size: 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches
Signed by hand
COA provided
*wired and ready to hang
Genevieve Hamel’s passions for design...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Seaside Figure Scene Oil Painting - Drift & Thought
Located in Bristol, GB
DRIFT AND THOUGHT
Size: 35 x 44 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century modernist painting that presents a tranquil seaside scene, executed in oil onto board.
The painting ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
View of Paris - Paint by Henri Hamm - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
View of Paris is a modern artwork realized by Henri Hamm in the 1930s.
Oil on wooden Panel.
Good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Villajoyosa, Spain by Alexandre de Spengler - Oil on Masonite 44x78 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Alexandre de Spengler (1893–1973) was a Swiss painter and engraver active in Geneva and Paris.
He is known for his land and seascapes, as well as...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Hilltop Afternoon, Blue and Green Landscape Painting, Dorset Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Inspired by local Dorset landscape.
Discover original paintings by Charlie Baird online with Wychwood Art and in our Deddington Art Gallery. Born in Nairn, Scotland in 1955, Charlie ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edge, Somerset UK Landscape, Modern British Style Painting, Large Statement Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Edge - an original oil painting by Charlie Baird depicting a West Country landscape beneath a vast blue sky with ascending darkness. Multi-layered, detailed oil painting.
Charlie Bai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tarragona garden Spain oil on canvas painting spanish urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 73x92 cm.
Frameless.
Francisco Carbonell Massabe (1928)
Francisco Carbonell Massabe was a Catalan painter with an impressionist spirit. It was in La Lonja and in Bella...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Dark Grey Bridge Over Green River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021),
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Important Contemporary Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive contemporary abstract expressionist painting by Stephen Heigh. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 8H x 10L.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 20th Century British Naive Welsh Oil Painting Village Life in Winter Snow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Winter in the Village
by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist
signed
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 32 x 40 inches
provenance: private collection of this artists work, UK
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare 1930s New York Tenement Market Scene Gouache Painting (WPA Era) Jewish Art
By Abram Tromka
Located in Surfside, FL
Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York where Tromka first became interested in art. Fascinated by a woman who was painting, he decided that he wanted to become an artist. Upon arrival at immigration headquarters, Tromka’s family adopted the surname “Phillips,” which he kept until 1930. Hence the artist’s early works bear the signature — ‘Phillips.’
Having a rough childhood, Tromka left home at 15 and spent the remainder of his teenage years living at the Henry Street...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
"Landscape" Minimalist Painting -Large Size Contemporary Art Made in italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape
mixed media on juta canvas
100x100 cm
2019
her painting tells of the relationship between man, nature and time, the landscape, the sign and the trace,
through the stripp...
Category
2010s Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Oil, Acrylic, Graphite
The Old Town Nice, South of France, Signed French Modernist Oil 1930's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, indistinctly signed and dated
Title: Nice (Cote d' Azur, France)
Medium: oil painting on board, framed.
frame: 28.75 x 32.75 inches
board: 21.25 x 2...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Elm Trees in Autumn Landscape in Antique Newcomb-Macklin Frame
By Mary H. Brubaker
Located in Soquel, CA
Elm trees in autumn at the edge of Salt Creek, Illinois, by Mary H. Brubaker (American, b. 1891). Signed and dated "Mary H. Brubaker 35" in the lower left cor...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
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