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Landscape Paintings For Sale
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Smokestack at the Refinery - Realistic Industrial Illustration in Gouache
Located in Soquel, CA
Industrial illustration of a smokestack by Charles Ross Kinghan (American, 1895-1984). A large tower and holding tanks are rendered in exquisite detail, especially considering the size of the illustration. The smokestack towers above the landscape, with stairs running up the outside. Two large green holding tanks sit next to the tower. At ground level, there are a few small figures, indicating the enormous scale of the refinery. possibly a sketch for Colliers or The Saturday Evening Post Magazine. Unsigned, but was acquired with other signed estate works by the artist. Presented...
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Cardboard, Watercolor

Deeper Still (Skid Steer)
Located in New Orleans, LA
medium: acrylic, paint pen, ink, pencil, enamel, and collage on canvas Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fra...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Contemporary Abstract Colorfield Landscape in Cream & Green
Located in Soquel, CA
A striking contemporary two-toned colorfield abstract by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957). A large neutral textured section in cream sits atop a wavy abstraction in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color-Field Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

White Light Stripe, Abstract Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Heidi Hybl portrays an abstract seascape where the orange-painted sky, soft white mist, and tranquil blue ocean seamlessly blend into one dreamy composit...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Oceancrush, dynamic brushwork in abstract painting with pale green, blue, white
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on panel. Tribute to the ocean and all the life within it.
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2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

2306C, Original work, line drawing, still-life, contempoary
Located in Deddington, GB
2306C – Myron Discobolus [2023] original ink on paper Image size: H:41.5 cm x W:29.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:41.5 cm x W:29.5 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Ink

Golfers 13, Figurative Painting, Original Sports Art, Golfing Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
With golfing as one of the favourite pastime of urban city life, golfers became the latest subject of my Lowry style paintings. Golfers appear to be randomly scattered on the crisp w...
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2010s Minimalist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Just Love" White & Red Minimalist Contemporary Abstract Line-work Landscape
Located in Carmel, CA
In Zion Mor's "Just Love", lighter colors take the forefront of this masterpiece and invoke a lighter and brighter feeling, one of love. A pale canvas is brought to life with gentle ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Frammento"-Black and White - Abstract Drawing - Large Size made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
Fragments charcoal on canson paper(300gr) 110x75 cm 2022 Fragments this drawing is part of a series of artworks, tell and trace the evolution and changes of a 70s house of a typical Italian family, this series of Artworks traces the designs and lifestyle of the era, evoking memories of moments the drawing will be shipped rolled in a tube, but it is possible to agree with the buyer the frame option and the shipping of this plate ready to hang...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Graphite, Paper, Charcoal

Italian Landscape, a drawing by Louis-Jean Desprez (1743 - 1804)
Located in PARIS, FR
This landscape, masterfully executed in pen and wash by Louis-Jean Desprez around 1779, probably represents a view of the Roman countryside. The treatment of the trees is very similar to that of two engravings which Desprez executed in Rome, The Island of Cythera and The Temple of Love. 1. Louis-Jean Desprez, a cosmopolitan life between Italy and Sweden Born in Auxerre in 1743, Louis-Jean Desprez probably began his apprenticeship with the engraver Charles-Nicolas Cochin...
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1770s Old Masters Landscape Paintings

Materials

Carbon Pencil, Ink

"Evening in the small town" Snow, winter, white Oil cm.50 x 25 1967
Located in Torino, IT
Snow, winter, white ,Night LEONID VAICHLIA (St. Petersburg, 1922/2013) Works by Leonid Vaichlia can be found in various private collections in Europe, Japan, United States and in t...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Golden Cycle Mill, Colorado, 1940s WPA Mining Watercolor Landscape, Black White
Located in Denver, CO
Original 1940s watercolor on paper painting by Charles Ragland Bunnell portraying a semi abstracted view of Golden Cycle Mill in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Painted in shades of black and gray. Presented in a custom black frame, outer dimensions measure 18 x 19 ½ x 1 ⅜ inches. Image sight size is 8 ⅛ x 9 ⅝ inches. Golden Cycle Mining and Reduction Company was a mining company in Colorado City (now Old Colorado City) in El Paso County, Colorado. Piece is clean and in excellent condition - please contact us for a detailed condition report. Expedited and international shipping is available - please contact us for a quote. About the artist: Artist and teacher, Charles (“Charlie”) Bunnell worked in a variety of styles throughout his career because as an artist he believed, “I’ve got to paint a thousand different ways. I don’t paint any one way.” At different times he did representational landscapes while concurrently involved with semi- or completely abstract imagery. He was one of a relatively small number of artists in Colorado successfully incorporating into their work the new trends emanating from New York and Europe after World War II. During his lifetime he generally did not attract a great deal of critical attention from museums, critics and academia. However, he personally experienced a highpoint in his career when Katherine Kuh, curator at the Art Institute of Chicago, personally chose one of his paintings – Why? - for its large exhibition of several hundred examples of abstract and surrealist art held in 1947-48, subsequently including it among the fifty pieces selected for a traveling show to ten other American museums. An only child, Bunnell developed his love of art at a young age through frequent drawing and political cartooning. In high school he was interested in baseball and golf and also was the tennis champion for Westport High School in Kansas City. Following graduation, his father moved the family to Denver, Colorado, in 1916 for a better-paying bookkeeping job, before relocating the following year to Colorado Springs to work for local businessman, Edmond C. van Diest, President of the Western Public Service Company and the Colorado Concrete Company. Bunnell would spend almost all of his adult life in Colorado Springs. In 1918 he enlisted in the United States Army, serving in the 62nd Infantry Regiment through the end of World War I. Returning home with a 10% disability, he joined the Zebulon Pike Post No. 1 of the Disabled American Veterans Association and in 1921 used the benefits from his disability to attend a class in commercial art design conducted under a government program in Colorado Springs. The following year he transferred to the Broadmoor Art Academy (founded in 1919) where he studied with William Potter and in 1923 with Birger Sandzén. Sandzén’s influence is reflected in Bunnell’s untitled Colorado landscape (1925) with a bright blue-rose palette. For several years thereafter Bunnell worked independently until returning to the Broadmoor Art Academy to study in 1927-28 with Ernest Lawson, who previously taught at the Kansas City Art Institute where Bunnell himself later taught in the summers of 1929-1930 and in 1940-41. Lawson, a landscapist and colorist, was known for his early twentieth-century connection with “The Eight” in New York, a group of forward-looking painters including Robert Henri and John Sloan whose subject matter combined a modernist style with urban-based realism. Bunnell, who won first-place awards in Lawson’s landscapes classes at the Academy, was promoted to his assistant instructor for the figure classes in the 1928-29 winter term. Lawson, who painted in what New York critic James Huneker termed a “crushed jewel” technique, enjoyed additional recognition as a member of the Committee on Foreign Exhibits that helped organize the landmark New York Armory Exhibition in 1913 in which Lawson showed and which introduced European avant-garde art to the American public. As noted in his 1964 interview for the Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, Bunnell learned the most about his teacher’s use of color by talking with him about it over Scotch as his assistant instructor. “Believe me,” Bunnell later said, “[Ernie] knew color, one of the few Americans that did.” His association with Lawson resulted in local scenes of Pikes Peak, Eleven Mile Canyon, the Gold Cycle Mine near Colorado City and other similar sites, employing built up pigments that allowed the surfaces of his canvases to shimmer with color and light. (Eleven Mile Canyon was shown in the annual juried show at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh in 1928, an early recognition of his talent outside of Colorado.) At the same time, he animated his scenes of Colorado Springs locales by defining the image shapes with color and line as demonstrated in Contrasts (1929). Included in the Midwestern Artists’ Exhibition in Kansas City in 1929, it earned him the gold medal of the Kansas City Art Institute, auguring his career as a professional artist. In the 1930s Bunnell used the oil, watercolor and lithography media to create a mini-genre of Colorado’s old mining towns and mills, subject matter spurned by many local artists at the time in favor of grand mountain scenery. In contrast to his earlier images, these newer ones – both daytime and nocturnal -- such as Blue Bird Mine essentially are form studies. The conical, square and rectangular shapes of the buildings and other structures are placed in the stark, undulating terrain of the mountains and valleys devoid of any vegetation or human presence. In the mid-1930s he also used the same approach in his monochromatic lithographs titled Evolution, Late Evening, K.C. (Kansas City) and The Mill, continuing it into the next decade with his oil painting, Pikes Peak (1942). During the early 1930s he studied for a time with Boardman Robinson, director of the Broadmoor Art Academy and its successor institution, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1930 to 1947. In 1934 Robinson gave him the mural commission under the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP) for West Junior High School in Colorado Springs, his first involvement in one of several New Deal art...
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1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Her Compliments, Horizontal Abstract Landscape, Pink, Dark Red, Brown, White
Located in Kent, CT
In this horizontal landscape painting in ink and oil on paper mounted on panel, the artist's unique ink process creates soft striations of bright pink, dark crimson red, pale yellow and orange at the center of a layered, undulating composition. The result is an abstract landscape suggesting a hilly mountain range, while layers of oil paint and a soft, faint background create depth within the surface. Signed, dated and titled on verso. Shane McAdams’ work is about landscape in the broadest sense. The artist grew up in the desert southwest...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Oil, Panel

"Golden Glow", contemporary abstract landscape acrylic on canvas, gold & pruple
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An acrylic abstract painting of the moment when the sun begins to set earlier and the evening colors glow in the chilled air. This painting was produced during my November 2017 resi...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"The Back Fence" - Figurative Composition
Located in Soquel, CA
Lovely figurative composition of two neighbors talking over a fence by Marilyn Spencer (American, 1939-2017). A figure dressed in blue is leaning over a fence, towards a neighbor dressed in yellow. Presumably the two people are engaged in conversation, based on their body language. This piece has a loose, sketchy style that adds an innocent quality to the composition. Signed in the lower right corner. Tag on verso from Mullaly-Matisse Galleries Presented in a gold-colored aluminum frame with an off-white mat. Paper size: 7.5"H x 7.5"W (approx - paper is not square) Marilyn Spencer (American, 1939-2017) was a lifelong resident of New Orleans and a popular regional artist. She worked mainly in acrylic (on canvas and paper) and lithograph, with most of her work depicting landscapes and scenes of women engaged in daily life. Spencer produced a lithograph for the New Orleans Saints...
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1980s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Vision in Lavender Landscape by Noel Howard
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted landscape by California artist Noel Howard (American, 20th Century). Layers of watercolor create a dreamlike landscape, as if the scene is just slightly out of focus. Ther...
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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Dark Sky III
Located in Santa Fe, NM
13x22" image size monotype, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board, paper size total 22x30". I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched v...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Monotype

Dark Sky II
Located in Santa Fe, NM
13x22" image size monotype, unframed. Shrink-wrapped on poster board, paper size total 22x30". I document the essence of the landscape everyday. I am interested in those untouched v...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Monotype

California's Bollinger Canyon Abstracted Monochrome Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful abstracted California landscape of Bollinger Canyon (Bay Area in Henry Coe Park) by James McCray (American, 1912-1993). Signed and dated "JM 4-74" ...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Ink

"Soverign of the Seas" - Seascape with Sailing Ship
Located in Soquel, CA
Regal depiction of the Sovereign of the Seas by Victor Lind (Sweden, 19th-20th c.). The ship is sailing towards the viewer, with the sun off to the right, illuminating the sails. The...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Postcard, Illustration Board, Gouache

Grey Movement by Fleur Park, Abstract art, Contemporary art, Minimalist
Located in Deddington, GB
Grey Movement by Fleur Park [2022] original and hand signed by the artist Acrylic on canvas Image size: H:60.5 cm x W:61 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:1.5 cm x W:60.5 cm x...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Late Spring by Rachael Dalzell. Acrylic on paper. White wood frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
A lively and cheerful painting of wild flowers in the fields of Norfolk during late spring. Rachael’s works on paper are particularly organ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

When the Whistle Blows
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Calhoun
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

8 Seconds
Located in Denver, CO
David Rathman is known for his sensitively rendered paintings of stereotypically male motifs from American history and contemporary culture. He was the recipient of a Bush Foundatio...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1900's English Impressionist Watercolor Painting Gentle Blue and Cream Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gentle SeaSide English School, early 1900's original watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed overall paper size: 7.75 x 11 inches From a large private collection of English ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

CHOCTAWHATCHEE BAY REEDS - Landscape Painting w/ Ocean & Sky - Background Oil
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Archival Paper, Oil

The Journey 02
Located in Deddington, GB
The Journey 02 by Stephanie Ho [2017] original Oil Paint on Canvas Image size: H:70 cm x W:100 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:70 cm x W:100 cm x D:4cm Sold Unframed Please not...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A place of calm by Rachael Dalzell. Acrylic on paper. White wood frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
“A place of calm” is a vibrant work on paper based on a quiet spot in the woods. Rachael’s works on paper are particularly organic. Diluted paint is allow...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

How silently they tumble down. Acrylic on paper. White wood frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
A small piece filled with autumn colour. This vibrant work conveys the artists love of the changing shapes and colours of the seasons. Rachael’s works on paper are particularly org...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

To belong among the wild flowers. Acrylic on paper. White wood frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
A warm and uplifting artwork based on a summer evening in the british countryside. Rachael’s works on paper are particularly organic. Diluted paint is allowed to migrate on a damp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

To be free and reach for the sun. Acrylic on paper. White wood frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Gerberas against a pink sky… A charming piece based on bright flowers. Rachael’s works on paper are particularly organic. Diluted paint is allowed to migrate on a damp surface, s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Germinating - Contemporary Painting on Canvas (Pink+Maroon+White+Gold)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Germinating" is an original contemporary painting by Laurie Barmore. With acrylic on canvas, this piece is a symphony of color. Baramore can seamlessly blend opposing colors creatin...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Bluebells III by Rachael Dalzell. Acrylic on paper. White wood frame.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Nature’s vibrant bluebell wood…. Artist Rachael Dalzell’s works on paper are particularly organic. Diluted paint is allowed to migrate on a damp surface, sticks are used to daub a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

"Shelter", Neue Constructivist Abstract Landscape Acrylic Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork is not framed. Antony Squizzato is a talented French artist who likes to experiment with different styles and techniques.
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2010s Constructivist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

TENDRIL - Peach, Lavender, White Nature Painting of Kudzu Vine, transparent mesh
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
TENDRIL by Heather Hartman was created for her show titled "Kudzu Season." This painting titled "Tendril," depicts a kudzu vine in white, layered over an at...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Mesh, Acrylic, Gouache

LANDSCAPE
Located in New York, NY
Fall landscape of field of wheat or long grass. yellow, beige and brown colors. American
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Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Garden in Kuraszewo - Polish Master Of Art Abstract Landscape, Minimalist
Located in Warsaw, PL
ANDRZEJ FOGTT (born in 1950) He graduated from the PWSSP in Poznań in 1974 where he studied in the studios of prof. Z.Kępiński and M. Abakanowicz. Initially, his art was considered t...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic, Cardboard

Wind, Breath, Life - Contemporary Gestural Abstract Painting (Blue+Cream)
Located in Gilroy, CA
"Wind, Breath, Life" is part of Berkowitz's recent experimentation with abstract painting. These Illusions of Risk paintings turn into an escape from reality. The work seeks to creat...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Low Tide - Mid Century Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century seascape of the waves spilling over the rocks into the tide pool by Margaret Esther Rogers (British/American, 1872-1961). Si...
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Jacques Germain -Untitled - Original Signed Ink
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Jacques GERMAIN (1915-2001) Untitled Circa 1970 Ink on Paper Signed J.G Born in Paris in 1915, worked with Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant at the Académie Moderne in 1931, we...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Ink

Sound Beach
Located in New York, NY
Acrylic painting. Abstract About the Artist: All I've ever wanted to be and all I've ever been is an artist. From a very young age, my view of the world was that of a moving painti...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

#4405
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil and wax on marble Neo-romantic painter Hiro Yokose fuses multiple layers of wax and oil paint to create mysterious, veiled landscapes illuminated with flashes of light in the s...
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Early 2000s Romantic Landscape Paintings

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Marble

White Orchid #101
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Kaoru Mansour. "White Orchid #101" is a collage, acrylic and 22K gold leaf on canvas painting depicting an elegant orchid flower bending gracefully over the top of the ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Gold Leaf

White Farm
Located in Gloucester, MA
Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Occupy 3" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX....
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Occupy 7" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX. Artist Biography: Max Kremer (b. 1999, Houston, TX) is currently working in Austin, Texas. Kremer obtained his BFA from the University of Texas...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Occupy 6" Contemporary Colorful Light Green Abstract Foliage Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract painting by local Houston artist Max Kremer. Currently featured in the show "5 Artists 5 Rooms" at Reeves Art + Design in Houston, TX....
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Tolani
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Panel

American Modernist Contemporary Abstract Composition Mixed Media Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist mixed media painting. Gouache and mixed media on paper, circa 2000. Signed. Image size, 15.5L x 23H. Housed in a period frame
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Early 2000s Abstract Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Léon Zack - Lyrical Abstract Composition - Signed Oil on Canvas
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Léon Zack Lyrical Abstract Composition Signed Oil on Canvas 50 x 61 cm Léon Zack (1892-1980) Léon Zack was a Russian émigré who became a leading exp...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

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It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.

The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.

The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).

Adding a landscape painting to your home can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of your own space. (Some may think of it as an aspirational window of sorts rather than a canvas.) Abstract landscape paintings by the likes of Korean painter Seungyoon Choi or Georgia-based artist Katherine Sandoz, on the other hand, bring pops of color and movement into a room. These landscapes refuse to serve as a background. Elsewhere, Adam Straus’s technology-inspired paintings highlight how our extreme involvement with our devices has removed us from the glory of the world around us. Influenced by modern life and steeped in social commentary, Straus’s landscape paintings make us see our surroundings anew.

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