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Size: Large
Moment of Brightness, Abstract Landscape with Sky, Blue Rainfall on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...
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2010s Fauvist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Oil Crayon, Paper, Watercolor, Archival Paper

1890s Watercolor Landscape – Sunrise & Spring Blossoms Over Platte River
Located in Denver, CO
An original 1891 watercolor painting by noted American landscape artist Charles Partridge Adams, titled "Spring Blossoms." This serene composition captures the Platte River at sunris...
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1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

A Large Mid-Century Harbor Scene with Boats by French Artist Georges Rocher
Located in Chicago, IL
A large tonal, Mid-Century harbor scene with boats by French artist Georges Rocher. Artwork size: 24" x 30". Framed size: 31" x 36". Georges Rocher was born in Casablanca, Moroc...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape 106 by Jean Krille - Oil on masonite 100x100cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Brooklyn Transfer East River Crossing, Oil on Canvas Painting Frederick Reimers
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Bklyn Transfer, East River Crossing" by Frederick Reimers (1911–1994) This unique, captivating cityscape painting by Frederick Reimers (USA, 1911–1994) offers a dynamic view of the ...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

William Clark Of Greenock (Attributed) Shipping Off Yarmouth & The Needles, Isle
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-19th-century oil painting attributed to Scottish artist William Clark of Greenock (1803-1883) depicts a fully-rigged British frigate sailing off Yarmouth and The Needles, Is...
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1860s Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

French 20th Century Abstract Expressionism Painting Figure in Soft Hues
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition by Marie Deloume (French born 1942) signed on back, inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas size: 36 x 36 inches condition: overall...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Huge 1800's English Oil Painting Man with Horses Resting Panoramic Country View
By Thomas Barker of Bath
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pausing for a Rest English School, circa 1800 the painting is very close to the works of Thomas Barker of Bath (English 1769-1847) oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 39 inches canvas...
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Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Purple Grey, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist More Art

Materials

Acrylic

Celestial Nocturne
Located in Zofingen, AG
Imagine a mysterious canvas of the night sky, where darkness transforms into a magical cosmos. Stars waltz gracefully, casting an enchanting atmosphere of mystery and romance. The tr...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter forest
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I sought to capture the serenity and immensity of a snow-covered forest. Using oil paints, I layered textures and hues to recreate the quiet and chilly atmosphere. ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les Vacances - Post Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Pierre Montezin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas figures in riverscape circa 1910 by sought after French impressionist painter Pierre Eugene Montezin. The work depicts women dressed in summer dresses and sunhat...
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1910s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Italian Mountainous River Landscape - French 19th Century Neo Classical art
Located in London, GB
This stunning Neo Classical French 19th century landscape oil painting is by acclaimed French artist Jean Victor Bertin. He was also an early proponent of sketching out doors and dir...
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19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Illustration Style, Exotic Flamingo Bouquet, Tropical Flowers in Red on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This vibrant painting captures the striking beauty and elegant forms of Flamingo flowers. Sweeping brushstrokes and vivid colors bring these flowers to life, highlighting their styli...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

India Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor

Peaceful Pine - Abstract Colorful Original Landscape Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elisabeth Grace, a visionary artist based in Denver, CO (USA), is renowned for her immersive large-scale paintings, collages, murals, and installation art. With a BA in oil painting ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil

Follower of Hubert Robert (1733-1808) - Framed Early 19th Century Oil
Located in Corsham, GB
Follower of Hubert Robert (1733-1808), French School, Oil on canvas. An accomplished oil painting depicting a romanticised landscape scene with silhouetted castle dominant on the lef...
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Early 19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large Antique American Impressionist Nicely Framed Picnic Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring 20 by 27 inches painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold g...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

W. Williamson - Framed 19th Century Oil, Rural Landscape with Figures Fishing
Located in Corsham, GB
An accomplished 19th-century rural landscape depicting two figures fishing in a quiet river with a country cottage smoking away in the background. Well presented in a gilt-effect fra...
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19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

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

Lingering Spring - original impressionism landscape painting - contemporary ART
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Lingering Spring" by Harry Brioche is a captivating original ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"In the Silence" (2024) By Stephanie Hartshorn, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Stephanie Hartshorn's beautiful original impressionist oil landscape "In the Silence" (2024) depicts an American midwestern plains scene with a large cloud forming above. Artist Bio...
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2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Fine Antique Scottish Oil Highlands Loch Scene Tranquil Pastoral Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Highland Landscape E.C Hamblin, British late 19th/early 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed dated 1914 verso framed: 25 x 35 inches canvas: 20 x 30 inches provenance: private c...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Landscape With Hunters By A Lake. 18th Century.
Located in Firenze, IT
Landscape with hunters by a lake. 18th century. Oil painting on canvas, from the French or Northern Italian school, Louis XV period. Probably part of the door decoration in an interi...
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18th Century Baroque Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century Seascape of Capri, Amalfi Coast
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous early 20th Century seascape of Capri on Amalfi Coast by Albert Wenk (German, 1863-1934), 1913. Signed and dated lower left corner. Cond...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Mission San Juan Capistrano, American Impressionist, Mathias Alten, California
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Foster Jewell (American, 1893-1984) Signed: F. Jewell (Lower, Right) " Mission San Juan Capistrano ", circa 1934 Oil on Canvas 21" x 25" Beautifully housed in a 4" Carved Frame ...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tempest - Large warm sunset abstract landscape painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
"Tempest" is a large warm sunset abstract landscape painting. This painting was made in the high Rockies of Colorado in the late autumn, when the winds roll through the sky with the ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sunset Over the Lake, 1919 by Swedish Artist Carl Kjellin (1862-1939)
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Sunset Over the Lake" by Carl Kjellin is a Nordic Light painting capturing the ephemeral beauty of a lake at sunset. The vibrant canvas, dominated by a b...
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1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category

1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Period Male Nude Surrealist Masterpiece Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Amazing early American surrealist nude male portrait landscape. Painted by Charles W St Clair. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 24L x 30H. Super detailed and rare!
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1930s Surrealist Nude Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue Landscape, Oil Paint on Canvas , Original Art by Marilina Marchica
Located in Agrigento, AG
Blue landscape Original oil painting on canvas Single piece Accompanied by certificate of authenticity 92 x 65 cm 2024 Marilina Marchica was born in Agrigento, where she works and ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th century English River landscape with figures, horses, cottage, sheep
By John Frederick Tennant
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted and very interesting composition attributed to the English landscape painter john Frederick Tennant. His work is very similar to ...
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1840s Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Illumination, green, beige, rose, Cy Twombley, flowers, landscape
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is from my series titled "The Untethered Soul." This series delves into the transformative power of nature, capturing the essence of what one feels rather than sees. In...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Chalk, Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Mixed Media, Acrylic

“Crashing Surf, Capri”
By Guido Odierna
Located in Southampton, NY
Large, impressive seascape of rolling surf pounding the rocky shore of Capri. Signed lower left by the Italian artist Guido Odierna. Circa 1975. Conditi...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Alaskan Fall Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted American impressionist fall landscape of Mt Denali in Alaska by Paul Lauritz (1889 - 1975). Oil on canvas. Excellent color and composition. Housed in a period...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

LARGE OIL PAINTING OLD MASTER Chester Harding (1792 - 1866) FINE 19th CENTURY
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING OLD MASTER ATTR to CHESTER CHARLES HARDING (1792 - 1866) FINE 19th CENTURY BRITISH Original Antique Large Early 19th Century British OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING Romantic Se...
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19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mall, Winter Evening-original impressionism London cityscape oil pianting-Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. "Mall, Winter Evening" by Michael Alford is a captivating orig...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Board, Oil

"Carriages at Grands Boulevards" Post-Impressionist Parisian City Street Scene
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Te Pencke. Pencke was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cattle grazing in an extensive landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Tom Coates (1941-2023) Cattle grazing in an extensive landscape Oil on canvas Signed with initials lower left Canvas Size - 20 x 24 in Framed Size - 29 x 33 in Tom Coates (1941–2023...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large Victorian Scottish Oil Painting Highland Loch Bathed in Sunlight
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunshine in the Scottish Highlands British School, 19th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 26.5 x 36.5 inches canvas: 24.5 x 35.5 inches provenance: private collection, UK conditi...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Signed American School Handsome Male Portrait Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist oil painting portrait. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seaside Serenade - Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
Located in Cullinan, ZA
Title: Seaside Serenade Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy This series connects to that around as well as that within. Solitude takes the viewer to that ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic

Antique American Modernist Framed Fauvist Forest Landscape Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstracted forest landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 24H by 36L.
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1960s Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th century English Antique horse racing scene in a landscape with Jockey up
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English Antique Horse racing scene in a landscape with Jockey up. Wonderful and very well painted English Horse Racing scene. Simil...
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1840s Victorian Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Two Horses in a Landscape - British 19thC equine art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Victorian oil painting is attributed noted landscape and animal artist George Cole ans ascribed verso. Painted in 1840 it is a superb portrait of two horses, one ...
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1840s Victorian Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Illuminated Branches Diptych", Contemporary, Yellow, Green, Pink, Oil Painting
Located in Natick, MA
“Illuminated Branches Diptych” by Catherine Picard-Gibbs is a dynamic textural oil painting on board that depicts dappled sunlight filtered through the forest. A heightened palette o...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel, Birch

Antique Masterful Frame American Winter Impressionist Snowy Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted winter impressionist landscape by Allen Dean Cochran (1888 - 1971). Oil on canvas. Housed in a spectacular, period, gold giltwood frame. Signed.
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1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century landscape oil painting of an angler fishing at a river
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
George Turner British, (1843-1910) A Quiet Spot for a Perch Oil on canvas, signed & dated (18)77, further inscribed & dated verso Image size: 17.5 inches x 29. 5 inches Size includ...
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19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pourquoi partir? - Post Impressionist Still Life Landscape Oil by Marcel Dyf
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas still life in landscape circa 1980 by sought after French post impressionist painter Marcel Dyf. The work depicts a view of a harbour from beyond the open green ...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Original Set of 6-Landscape Memories-Gold Leaf with Oil-British Awarded Artist
Located in London, GB
Shizico's unique approach to paintings, erasing, rewriting, and destroying the landscape in the background through bold strokes of gold leaf on the top layers in this series, works o...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"Landscape" Abstract landscape on canvas , Original Painting Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Landscape Mixed media on canvas 100x100 cm Original Art certificate of authenticity
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Having a Cigarette AmongYellow and Green-British Awarded Artist-Impressionist
Located in London, GB
This is one of the most loved and iconic paintings of Shizico Yi to date. -Artist’s lifetime Warranty for this artwork. -Free frame service with selections of fr...
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2010s Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Oil, Acrylic

Winter Moonlight - Signed Landscape Oil Painting by Max Clarenbach
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1930 by German post impressionist painter Max Clarenbach. The work depicts a winter scene, with snow laying thick on the ground. To the foregroun...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Farmhouses in Autumn, Giverny" Theodore Earl Butler, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Earl Butler Farmhouses in Autumn, Giverny Signed "T.E. Butler" lower right Oil on canvas 21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches Provenance The artist. Estate of the above. By descent throu...
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1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Romantic Landscape at Sunset - Oil Painting by E. Serra y Auque
Located in Roma, IT
Romantic Landscape at Sunset is a wonderful oil on canvas realized by Enrique Serra y Auque (1859-1918). There is an inscription, the signature on the lower margin at the center: "Enrique Serra Roma". This marvelous Roman lake landscape delimited by the detail of an elegant statue, is painted with acute pictorial sensibility and a very fine technical ability. In very good condition, with a gilded wooden frame included. Enrique Serra y Auque (Barcelona, 1859 - Rome, 1918) Enrique Serra y Auque today famous for his landscapes, showed his artistic talent early. He attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Barcelona and was a pupil of Ramon Marti Alsina, now considered the founder of the Catalan landscape school, and the sculptor Domingo Talarn. At the age of twenty, in 1879, he received a scholarship on merit and moved to Rome, where he remained there for the rest of his life. Here he attended the Chigi Academy, became a friend of Mariano Fortuny, one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 19th century after Goya...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Vintage French Impressionist Paris Oversized Figural Park Scene Landscape 1960
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3938 French Figural park landscape oil on canvas in a gilt wood frame Image size 19.5x29.5" I
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1960s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Modernist Oversized Under Water Coral Seascape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5076 Underwater coral view Rapped canvas no frame required
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1960s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 39 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1957 "Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 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 officer's 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 was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas are in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Turning them North" Large Western Painting Cowboys Longhorn Cattle Landscape
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on Canvas Canvas size: 24 x 36 in. Frame Size: 33 x 39 in. "Turning them North" is an exhilarating scene of the American Old West by Gary Lynn Roberts (b. 1953, American) execut...
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1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Mid Century Modern Cubist Abstract Architectural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Unsigned. Image size, 30L x 24H. Housed in a period frame.
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1940s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Scottish early 20th century River landscape, the Moriston River Scotland
Located in Woodbury, CT
The image shows a captivating early 20th-century Scottish river landscape painting by Joseph Henderson, a renowned Scottish artist celebrated for his evocative depictions of nature, ...
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Early 1900s Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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