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Mid Century French Original Ink Drawing of a Rural Landscape with Hay Wagon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: "Mid Century French Original Ink Drawing of a Rural Landscape with Hay Wagon" Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Ink on artist paper Size: 19.75 (height) x 25...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Ink

Venice with the Doge's Palace
By Amédée Rosier
Located in St. Albans, GB
Amedee ROSIER (1831 - 1898) This is a classic example of Rosier's work featuring the Doge's Palace in Venice, Italy. Venice is a reoccurring theme in hi...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Solent No.25, Oil, painting, Musician, Dire straits, British, abstract, aerial
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
Solent No.25 is an oil on canvas showing a section of the landscape, painted from an aerial perspective by Artist & Musician John Illsley. The artwork com...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Mountains 4 July 16:12 - Modern Minimalistic Landscape Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mid Century Modernist French Painting Landscape With Forest, River, Path
Located in Surfside, FL
Beautiful gouache on paper, Moody atmospheric landscape in shades of black, blue green and gold by French artist, Roger Etienne Everaert Ret, signed on top right. Roger Etienne, Fren...
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

"Industrial Cityscape, Chicago" WPA Modernism Mid-Century Cityscape 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Midwestern Chicago artist Aaron Bohrod painted in 1931 this modernist industrial cityscape during the WPA of the 20th Century. Aaron Bohrod (American 1907 – 1992), Industrial Citysc...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Victorian Home Watercolor Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A place where lives have been well-lived is conveyed in this watercolor painting of a Victorian home by Diane Baldwin (American, 20th century). Signed "...
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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor, Archival Paper

Au Sortie du Port, Oil Painting circa 1920
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Amedee-Julien Marcel-Clement, French (1873 - ?) Title: Granville: Au Sortie du Port Year: circa 1920 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 21 x 25.5 inches (53.34 x 64...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Redhead Sitting next to Canoe painted in Arts and Crafts style
Located in Miami, FL
Masterfully designed scene of an attractive young Redhead sitting by a canoe under a tree with hanging Spanish moss. It is rendered in a quick Arts and Crafts style that is as abstract as it is representational. The viewer can stare at it endlessly and still discover new pictorial relationships. Every brush stroke and every dap a paint is perfectly placed. Signed lower left. Most likely for Saturday Evening Post or Colliers. Louderback is a painter/illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Ocean Clouds, Seascape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Ocean Clouds...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20thC Modernist oil ' Dog in the Midday Sun' circa 1980
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine 20th Century Modernist figurative oil painted by Christian Pedersen Bellinge (1897-1984) oil on canvas 60cm x 70cm painted wooden frame 68cmx 78cm A good late work by the well...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Coolness, Post Impressionism Paul Cézanne Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2020 Style: Impressionism Title: Coolness Size: 23.5" x 31.5" x 0.8'' ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Turn of 20th Century American Impressionist Chicago Landscape -- Frost Bound
Located in Soquel, CA
Turn of 20th Century American Impressionist Chicago Landscape -- Frost Bound Luminous turn of the century American Impressionism landscape of Chicago in winter titled "Frost Bound" by Henning Ryder (Swedish/American, 1869-1939), circa 1900. Signed lower right corner. Exhibited in the 1915 Panama Pacific...
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1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Impressionist landscape of the garden of Giverny 'Floral Walk'
Located in THOMERY, FR
The painting is done in oil alla prima on canvas. Linda Clerget focuses on the exploration of colors and textures, inspired by the nature that surrounds her and her daily life. She builds a poetic and intuitive visual universe, which addresses our sensations and emotions before our intellect. The viewer is thus projected into "little paradises", waking dreams...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Garden of Flowers, Impressionist Oil Painting by Diane Monet
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original impressionist painting by widely exhibited American artist, Diane Monet. Alexander Monet -- Diane Monet's grandfather -- moved to the United S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Landscape with Cows, Probably Mount Monadnock NH
By William Preston Phelps
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist mountain landscape with cows, probably Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, by American artist William Preston Phelps (1848-1923). Phelps was born in Chesham, New H...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Paradise Pond. An oil landscape in the style of the Nayiv Volsky Lilya
Located in Zofingen, AG
Paradise Pond. An oil landscape in the style of the Nayiv Volsky Lily. In our fantasies, there are corners or places where we want to come again and again. I decided to share my plac...
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2010s Pop Art Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Lacquer, Oil

Gathering Point contemporary moody ocean and cloudscape
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This original oil on linen painting, inspired by an adventurous, stormy day on the Big Island in Hawaii at lava engulfed, surf pounded, Kaimu beach is 24 x 30 inches, on gallery wrap...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Linen, Oil

Six O'Clock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Six O-Clock, c. 1942, oil on canvas, 30 x 20 inches, signed and titled several times verso of frame and stretcher (perhaps by another hand), marked “Rehn” several times on frame (for the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries in New York City, who represented Craig at the time); Exhibited: 1) 18th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Paintings from March 21 to May 2, 1943 at The Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. #87, original price $450 (per catalog) (exhibition label verso), 2) Craig’s one-man show at the Frank K. M. Rehn Galleries, New York City, from October 26 to November 14, 1942, #10 (original price listed as $350); and 3) Exhibition of thirty paintings sponsored by the Harrisburg Art Association at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg in March, 1944 (concerning this exhibit, Penelope Redd of The Evening News (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) wrote: “Other paintings that have overtones of superrealism inherent in the subjects include Tom Craig’s California nocturne, ‘Six O’Clock,’ two figures moving through the twilight . . . .” March 6, 1944, p. 13); another label verso from The Museum of Art of Toledo (Ohio): original frame: Provenance includes George Stern Gallery, Los Angeles, CA About the Painting Long before Chris Burden’s iconic installation outside of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Urban Light, another artist, Tom Craig, made Southern California streetlights the subject of one of his early 1940s paintings. Consisting of dozens of recycled streetlights from the 1920s and 1930s forming a classical colonnade at the museum’s entrance, Burden’s Urban Light has become a symbol of Los Angeles. For Burden, the streetlights represent what constitutes an advanced society, something “safe after dark and beautiful to behold.” It seems that Craig is playing on the same theme in Six O-Clock. Although we see two hunched figures trudging along the sidewalk at the end of a long day, the real stars of this painting are the streetlights which brighten the twilight and silhouette another iconic symbol of Los Angeles, the palm trees in the distance. Mountains in the background and the distant view of a suburban neighborhood join the streetlights and palm trees as classic subject matter for a California Scene painting, but Craig gives us a twist by depicting the scene not as a sun-drenched natural expanse. Rather, Craig uses thin layers of oil paint, mimicking the watercolor technique for which he is most famous, to show us the twinkling beauty of manmade light and the safety it affords. Although Southern California is a land of natural wonders, the interventions of humanity are already everywhere in Los Angeles and as one critic noted, the resulting painting has an air of “superrealism.” About the Artist Thomas Theodore Craig was a well-known fixture in the Southern California art scene. He was born in Upland California. Craig graduated with a degree in botany from Pomona College and studied painting at Pamona and the Chouinard Art School with Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Barse Miller among others. He became close friends with fellow artist Milford Zornes...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Around East River, NYC Bridge, City Scene Oil Painting WPA Era 1940s
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern Subject: Marine Landscape Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 20.5" x 24.5" The imagery of Maurice Kish (1895-1987), whether factories or carousels, reliably subverts expectations. His vision hovers just around the unraveling edge of things, where what is solid and clear becomes ambiguous. He is fascinated, often delighted, by the falling apart. This unexpected, fresh perspective results in oddly affecting pictures of a now long-gone New York. Born Moishe in a town called Dvinsk, Russia (what is now Daugavpils, Latvia), Kish came with his family to New York when he was in his teens. The family settled in Brownsville, and for the rest of Kish’s life Brooklyn remained his home, though he moved from one neighborhood to another. He was close to his parents, who recognized his talent and supported his desire to become an artist. Kish attended the National Academy of Design as well as Cooper Union. His fellow students included many other immigrants and children of immigrants who were particularly receptive to the Modernism coming from Europe. As his career progressed, Kish himself applied different strains of Modernism to different purposes. For him, the story was held above all else. For years, Kish used the skills he acquired in art school to earn his living at a Manhattan glass...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Figurative Landscape -- The Search
By Winifred Lucy Shaffer
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Figurative Landscape - The Search A dreamlike landscape by Winifred Lucy Shaffer (American, 20th Century). Several figures are clustered together in a forest setting. Th...
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1960s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Entering Beaver Meadow; Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
Located in Pasadena, CA
Consigned to the gallery by H&N Fine Art as part of the Katherine A. Norris Legacy Collection FRAMED: 25.75" x 29.5" x 1.125 UNFRAMED: 19.5" x 23.75 Exhibited Early California Mas...
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Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Guillaume-François Colson - Sur la plage, french, beach, 19th century, painting
Located in London, GB
Guillaume-François Colson (1785-1860) Sur la plage oil on canvas 35 x 65 cm signed 'Colson' (lower right) Price: £18,000 GBP Provenance: MacConnal-Mason Fine Paintings Private coll...
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19th Century French School Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Rococò Venetian Master - 18th century figure painting - Venus and Chronos
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Sketch for Venus and Chronos. 59 x 43 cm without frame, 70 x 54 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer Evening
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Fine 19the century landscape by member of the renowned Williams family of artists, George Augustus (1814-1901). George Augustus was the son of Edward Williams (1781-1855), whose wife...
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Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Vilars Lavender Field" Contemporary Impressionist Oil of Provence
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Vilars Lavender Field" is an exceptional large oil painted on location in Provence by Maria Bertran, this Contemporary Impressionist landscape captures the beauty of Summer in the S...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

“L’après-midi d’un faune” by Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867 – 1944) French Painter
Located in Knokke, BE
Ker-Xavier Roussel Lorry-les-Metz 1867 – 1944 Etang-la-Ville French Painter 'L’après-midi d’un faune' Signature: signed lower left and right Medium: pastel on paper mounted on boar...
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Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Pastel, Paper, Board

Antique American Modern Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting New York Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful antique modern impressionist painting by WNY artist John R. Nichol. This beautiful painting was created in the earlier 20th Century when Nichol was living in the Buffalo...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Impressionist Female Artist Ashcan School Signed Cityscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionsit oil painting of a cityscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1925. Signed. Displayed in a period frame. Image, 18"L x 22"H.
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Lightning by Franco Salas Borquez - Contemporary seascape painting, ocean
Located in Paris, FR
The Lightning is a unique pigments and silver crayon on wood painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 80 × 60 cm (31.5 × 23.6 in). The artwork is signed,...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Silver

Abstract Geometric Landscape, Cubist Oil Painting by John F. Leonard
Located in Long Island City, NY
Abstract Geometric Landscape (63) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas mounted to Board Size: 11 in. x 28 in. (27.94 cm x 71.12 cm) Frame Size: 33.25...
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1960s Cubist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board, Canvas

Taroudant
Located in New Orleans, LA
Signed, inscribed and dated "R. Pinatel / Taroudant / 1926" (lower right) Oil on panel A stunning ode to the Moroccan landscape, this oil on panel was composed by the French Orientalist painter Raphaël Pinatel, whose lively works adeptly translated the romanticism of the East for a Western audience. The present work, which captures a market in Taroudant, a city in southeastern Morocco, exemplifies the artist’s distinctive approach as he brilliantly translates the energy and atmosphere of the desert city. Pinatel’s style is impressionistic in his brushwork and handling of light and atmosphere. In the present work, he brilliantly captures the effects of the direct desert sun...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Oliver Walker - Contemporary Oil, Farmhouse in the Fells
Located in Corsham, GB
An original oil painting by British artist Oliver Walker depicting a secluded farmhouse in the fells. Initialled by the artist to the lower right. On canvas on stretchers.
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Oil

OLD MASTER W . THORNLEY OIL PAINTING High Quality 19th CENTURY Gold Gilt Frame
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD MASTER W . THORNLEY OIL PAINTING High Quality 19th CENTURY Gold Gilt Frame OLD MASTER LARGE OIL PAINTING 19th Century NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF ENGLISH HISTORY “Very ...
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Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

French Abstract Expressionist Signed Oil Blur of Color 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Sky Composition by Gerard Guegueniat (French 1970's) signed oil painting on board, unframed board: 19 x 26.5 inches provenance: private collection, France cond...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Oil Painting of River Landscape in Ireland Countryside by Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of River Landscape in Ireland Countryside by Modern Irish Artist. This original oil painting is an early example of the more traditional...
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1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Watching Puddles in the Rain Series #3, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
While walking along a street, artist Patrick O'Boyle noticed the shimmer of lights and colors bouncing off a puddle. Inspired, he turned this moment into a se...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Red Coral in The Deep Blue Sea
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4087 Red coral seascape. Painted on artist board Set in a hand painted vintage wood frame Signed Rodat
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1970s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Horse dealers
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 63 x 85.5 x 6.5 cm
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1910s Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Summer Hedgerow with Brambles and Dog Roses right panel, original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
This work depicts a summer hedgerow crowded with blossom – the palest of pink flowers of wild roses, often called dog roses. Their prettiness is matched by their delicate fragrance –...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

Oil on paper, Moscardó, "Strange places", Contemporary abstract painting, Blue
Located in Carballo, ES
Luis Moscardó describes natural landscapes in his paintings, but his landscapes are not real, nor possible. They are abstract, invented or, as many critics observe, 'born from the artist's soul'. It is a natural artifact...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Oil

Mythological Scene Various Classical Figures in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century Title: Mythological Scene with Figures in Classical Landscape Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Size: board: 19.75 x 27 inches ...
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20th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Approaching Storm: Horsemen on Normandy Beach
Located in Chicago, IL
Oil on canvas 60.3 x 73 cm.; 23 3/4 x 28 3/4 inches Signed lower right
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20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Eastern Glades VIII Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract 30" x 30" Water
Located in Houston, TX
Eastern Glades VIII Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract 30" x 30" Inspiration for Eastern Glades VIII Acrylic on Canvas Contemporary Abstract 30 x 30" is from the Memorial Park Conservancy. Also shown are other paintings by Eleanor McCarthy. Commissions available. As the first significant project of Memorial Park Conservancy's 10-year plan, Clay Family...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

FERNAND AUDET (1923-2016) FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL NIGHT TIME FIGURES COURTYARD
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Bright Conversation" by Fernand Audet (French, Tarascon 1923- Mulhouse 2016) signed lower right, oil painting on board, unframed painting: 25.5 x 21 inches A fine "mid century" oi...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Oil and Cold Wax Painting by New York Contemporary Artist Sandrine Kern 'Blue'
Located in White Plains, NY
Available at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. 'Blue' by New York City based, French artist Sandrine Kern. 2022. Oil and cold wax on canvas, 30 x 30 in. This abstracted landscape painting fea...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Wax, Oil

Swedish Mid Century Impressionist, cafe scene in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Impressionist scene from Sweden Painted with a great deal of care this scene is of an outside cafe scene with figures in an extensive landscape and town. The artist was...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Horizon of Hope
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Horizon of Hope" is a serene piece that reflects the grandeur and tranquility of nature, addressing the timeless theme of hope and aspiration. The expansive sky, painted in soft blues and pinks, casts its light over the serene waters, with the distant horizon drawing a line of possibilities. The warm pastel colors of the land evoke a sense of inner peace and harmony, while the silhouettes of trees on the horizon symbolize strength and resilience. This work by Helen Mount...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

"Spring Symphony"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
The beauty of the spring landscape is mesmerizing. The air still smells of snow and moisture. It's early spring. The painting was painted outdoors, in the open air in 2009.
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Preuilly-sur-Claise, French" by Roger Delapierre - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Roger Delapierre was born in Geneva in 1935. ... Roger Delapierre's painting has reached full maturity and the success of his exhibitions has proven i...
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1990s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

HUGE FRENCH CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT CUBIST FRAMED PAINTING - RENE LEROY
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Rene Leroy (French b. 1932), signed Title: Abstract/ Cubist Composition Medium: mixed media, material and oil on canvas, framed, signed Size: frame: 24 x 29 i...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Oil

20th Century British Modernist Oil Painting Light Colour Mixed Media Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) gouache/newspaper painting on board, unframed board: 25 x 30 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the paintings w...
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20th Century Impressionist Abstract Paintings

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Gouache, Newsprint

California Coastal Seascape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4089 California Seascape , contemporary acrylic on canvas applied on board,displayed in a vintage gilt wood frame. Signed by Italian artist P.Russo
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

Small village in autumn and Le Salève
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Grey wooden frame With frame 75 x 86 x 4 cm This captivating work depicts a rural landscape in soft, earthy hues, evoking a peaceful, harmonious atmosphere. The rollin...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

COUNTRY LANDSCAPE - Italian Oil on Canvas Painting.
Located in Napoli, IT
Country Landscape - OIl on canvas cm.60x80, Antonio Crespi, Italy 2005. In this interesting oil on canvas, the painter was inspired by the works of the ...
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Early 2000s Italian School Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bathers
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Bathers Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in. John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters. At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions. A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century. John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934). Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.) During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution. John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career. This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
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1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Sunset, seascape oil painting, one of a kind, framed
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Seascape oil Painting Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2019 Style: Classic Art, Impressionism, Subject...
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2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Bay Shanties, San Francisco', Marin, WPA, Mid-century California oil, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Oil landscape showing a view of several age-worn buildings near waters edge, with two sailboats making their way past, and gold and lavender hued hills in the background. Signed low...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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