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Medium: Paint
Virginia Hills American Female Modernist Abstract Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting by Anne Sharp. Oil on canvas. Signed.
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1970s Modern Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Original Oil, Golden Summer-Sunlit series , British Awarded Artist-framed
Located in London, GB
The painting was painted Plein Air, in Artist's own garden of the memorial roses she planted. This is Rosa Albertine, the first Old English variety Artist Shizico Yi planted in her garden in 2016, before her late dog died. Old English Roses...
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2010s Abstract Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Gold

Napoli - Original Landscape Colorful Authentic Italian Beach City Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite

Vintage California Moonlit Sea Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3457 Moonlit Sea Painting ,oil on canvas displayed in a pale blue wood frame.Signed by E.Mc Cormick April 1966.Image size 15 H x 19 W. Excellent condition ,wear on the frame
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1960s Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Modernist Mid century Swedish tram and figure scene in Fauvist colors
Located in Woodbury, CT
Acquiring a mid-20th-century Fauvist painting by Wilhelm Henning is an opportunity to own a piece of art that captures the vibrant spirit and expressive color palette of the Fauvist ...
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1950s Fauvist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Une Jardin Hollandaise - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Max Agostini
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled post impressionist figures in landscape oil circa 1980 by French painter Max Michel Agostini. The work depicts park-goers on a path beside a lake on a sunny spring ...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The Matador Bullfight on Horseback French Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Bullfight Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) inscribed verso wooden frame signed oil painting on canvas framed: 15 x 18.5 inches canvas: 14.75 x 18 inches. All the paintin...
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20th Century Modern Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Anomalous Light, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Lush green lily pads and pink water lilies float calmly on a pond. Gentle ripples reflect the early morning sunlight, with the mist adding to the glow. Painte...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

French Impressionist Gouache of Cathedral and Timber-Framed Houses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Gouache of Cathedral and Timber-Framed Houses by Fanche Lel Size: 8.5 inches (height) x 6.25 inches (width) Gouache painting on card, unframed Condition: ...
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20th Century Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

Antique Scottish Highlands Signed Oil Painting Shepherd & Sheep Sunset Loch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"In the Trossachs" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner with pseudonym "W. Richards" titled verso to canvas oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 12 x 20 inc...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Crisp Day, Shark Harbor; Catalina Island
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist Artist Statement “Any day at Shark Harbor is a good day.” — Joseph Paquet EXHIBITIONS California Art Club's 103th Annual Gold Medal Exhibition at Autry National Center, March 30- April 20, 2016 Santa Catalina Island...
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2010s Realist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Landscape n°87 by Jean Krillé - Oil on masonite 100x120 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on masonite plate sold with original framing Total size with the frame 102x122 cm Jean Krillé is a Swiss artist from Geneva, recognized for his significant contributions to co...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape with Oak Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous late 19th century Tonalist landscape painting of foothills and oak trees in the style of Willard Leroy Metcalf circa 1900. Inscribed "M" in circle monogram lower left corner and on frame verso. Presented in original rustic giltwood frame. Image size: 6"H x 8"W. Framed size: 8.5"H x 10.5"W. Tonalist are usually intimate works, painted with a limited palette. Tonalist paintings are softly expressive, suggestive rather than detailed, often depicting the landscape at twilight or evening, when there is an absence of contrast. Tonalist paintings could also be figurative, but in them, the figure was usually out of doors or in an interior in a low-key setting with little detail. Tonalism had its origins in the works of the French Barbizon school and in the works of American painters who were influenced by them. California Tonalism was born when the emphasis in California landscape painting passed from the grand landscapes of works like those of Thomas Hill and William Keith's early career, to more intimate views of a domesticated landscape. At the same time, the parallel Pictorialist Photography...
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1890s Tonalist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Dandelion
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is featured in the Makk Family book, "Vision of Life on page 102. Eva Makk has been called “the world’s foremost living impressionist painter...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

View of Sedona II, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Jonelle Summerfield beautifully captures a quintessential view of Sedona's red rocks. The contrasting lush greenery enhances the warm landscape. The ru...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Heart & Soul Opens No. 1 - Photorealistic Painting of Powerful Ocean Waves
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Steven Nederveen's art is a testament to the complex and ever-evolving relationship between humans and nature. His vivid nature scenes, often seemingly uplifting and idyllic, also reveal the darker aspects of our connection with the natural world. Through his work, Nederveen explores the dualities of our relationship with nature - the love and destruction that can coexist within us. His masterful use of color and light illuminates the beauty and mystery of natural environments such as oceans and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

"THE COWBOYS" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY James Robinson (1944-2015)
Located in San Antonio, TX
James Robinson (1944-2015) Austin, Dallas, Houston Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 40 x 50 Medium: Acrylic "The Cowboys" Texas Hill Country Biography James Robinson (1944-2015...
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20th Century American Realist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Hugh H. Breckenridge" at lower left
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spanish fishermen on the beach Spain oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Fishermen - Oil on panel Oil size 22x27 cm. Frameless. Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in Madrid, at th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

French school The River Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️The River from Rousseau⬅️ "Il est tombé par terre, C'est la faute à Voltaire, Le nez dans le ruisseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau" - He fell to the ground, It's Voltaire's fault, H...
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1890s Tonalist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

"Alices Tea Cup" Colorful Impressionistic Plein Air Oil Painting New York City
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...
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2010s American Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Tree by the lake" by Hans Hotz - Oil on cardboard 35x39 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on cardboard sold with frame Total size with frame 55x59 cm
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Terriers in Stable Barn Interior Rat Catching Signed 1920's English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Rat Catcher English School, 1920's signed, dated, "R. Esom" oil on canvas, framed framed: 12 x 16 inches canvas : 8 x 12 inches Provenance: private collection, Cotswolds, Englan...
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1920s English School Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Antique Chinese Figural Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5179 Antique figural garden scene
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1920s Paint Landscape Paintings

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Ink, Watercolor

Antique American School Modernist Abstract Fall Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist landscape painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
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1960s Abstract Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Camlough Lake in Northern Ireland by 20th Century Modern Artist, Patrick O'Neill Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame measures 35 x 25 inches A beautiful colourful ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Impasto Oil Painting of Moor in English Countryside by British Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Impasto Oil Painting of a Moorland in the English Countryside by British Landscape Artist. Original on Canvas. Expressive and atmospheric depiction of a stormy. Art measures 26 x ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood, Wood Pan...

"West Ritner hill" Color-Forward Cityscape with Geometric Abstraction Elements
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "West Ritner hill" is an original artwork by Miriam Singer and is made of pencil, marker, and acrylic on paper. The artist spends her free time biking around the ci...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood Panel

Seashore, Coastal Original oil Painting, Large Size Ready to hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Coastal Original oil Painting, Large Size Ready to hang Artist: Karen Darbinyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen, Year: 2019 Style: C...
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2010s Academic Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mountain Lake in Spring Oil Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain Lake in Spring Oil Painting of the Scottish Highlands by British Artist by British Artist, Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A.(Lon) B.Des.(Hons) L.S.I.A.D. Art measures 30 x 20 inche...
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20th Century Realist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Austrian Large Landscape Oil Painting Sunset Over the Mountains 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5151 Antique Austrian large scale landscape oil painting signed, framed Image size 35.5x23.5"
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1940s Paint Landscape Paintings

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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 Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Meadows Mayhem by Jan Rogers, Original painting, Floral painting, Botanical art
Located in Deddington, GB
Meadow Mayhem by Jan Rogers [2022] original and hand by the artist Acrylics on canvas Image size: H:60 cm x W:60 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:2cm Sold Un...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blue Barn Green Field - landscape, Canadian, contemporary, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
For Canada’s beloved pop artist, Charles Pachter, the barn reimagined in graphic form is a reminder of Canada’s early rural history and the pioneers that helped shape this country. T...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Antique American Modernist Abstract Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil and encaustic on canvas, circa 1980. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period frame. Imag...
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1980s Abstract Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century French Warm Landscape with Old Fortress Moody Greens Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Fortress French School, mid 20th century indistinctly signed oil on canvas, framed in original period frame framed: 32 x 28 inches canvas : 26 x 22 inches Provenance: privat...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Catalyst for Consciousness - Flow Contemporary Abstract Showpiece Detail Lively
Located in Cullinan, ZA
Title: Catalyst for Consciousness Flow Contemporary Abstract Showpiece Bright Lively This series expresses our unity and our interconnectedness. We are dancing to a traverse tune ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic

1850’s English Fox Hunting Classic Countryside Scene Huntsman on Horseback
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
19th Century English School oil painting on copper, framed framed: 18 x 14 inches board: 13 x 8 inches provenance: private collection, Derbyshire...
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Early 19th Century Victorian Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Spanish Landscape with Farmhouse oil painting Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Spanish Landscape with Farmhouse Artist: Rafael Duran Benet (Barcelona, 1931–2015) Technique: Oil on canvas board Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in Signature: Signed "R. Duran" in ...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Pair Antique Oil Paintings Scottish Highland Loch Scenes G. F. Buchanan 1872
Located in Portland, OR
A fine pair of antique oil paintings Scottish Highland Scenes by George Frederick Buchanan (1800-1874) Landscapist George Frederick Bucha...
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1870s Realist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Reverie, Nicola Mosley, Landscape Painting, Statement Art, Large Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Reverie by Nicola Mosley [2022] Dreamy light and airy landscape painting of clouds floating over the sea. Pale blue background with pale pink clouds, oi...
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2010s Abstract Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Orange Reflection. Horizontal landscape, impressionism, Venice, canal, boats.
Located in Oslo, NO
This painting is full of movement and reflections. Venetian houses are reflected in the water of the canal and we enjoy the play of light and color, the change of shapes and the play...
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2010s Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"5th Avenue - Midtown" Impressionist Snow Oil Painting in Style of Guy Wiggins
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of Snow on 5th Avenue New York City with figures walking and cars in the distance. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, light pink, whites, and burnt sienna's. An iconic street scene with beautiful brushwork and whimsical details, this piece captures the essence of New York in snow. This work is a following of Guy Wiggins. This painting is signed by the artist lower right and it comes housed in a beautiful antique ornate gold tone giltwood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed. Art measures 13 x 8.5 inches Frame measures 17.5 x 13 inches Inspired by whimsey and purity of the feminine form, Cindy Shaoul is known for her impressionistic and abstract style. She is best recognized for her series ‘Brides’, ‘Dripping Dots’ and ‘Hearts’, as well as her ‘Plein-Air’ street scenes of quintessential New York locations. Shaoul’s works can be found in hundreds of private and corporate collections worldwide. Since her first group show at Parsons School of Design in 2009, her work has been showcased internationally – from Italy to South Korea – and has been shown at various art fairs nationwide including Miami, Palm Beach, Dallas, and New York. Shaoul has had numerous solo exhibitions and has garnered the attention of notable celebrities such as Emma Roberts, Lily Collins, Ashley Park, Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich. Her love of painting began at the age of 18 when she was on Thanksgiving break from college. She painted a 9-foot colorful, abstract mural in her mother’s art...
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2010s American Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Parisian Cafe Scene" Romantic Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures & Flowers
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical oil painting depicting a Parisian Cafe scene in Paris, France by Luigi Cagliani. As an Italian Impressionist artist Cagliani most of his works were produced in the first ...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Italian Landscape - British 19th century art landscape oil painting hills Italy
By Ramsey Richard Reinagle
Located in London, GB
An original British large oil painting on canvas by Ramsay Richard Reinagle which is signed and looks to be dated 1832. Lovely rich colouring depicting a mountainous Italian panorama...
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Early 19th Century Realist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Wild Sensations
Located in THOMERY, FR
"Wild Sensations" – Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 70 cm In this vibrant and sun-drenched piece, freedom takes shape through the fluid movement of a young woman gliding on her skateboard, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Boats in a Harbor
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is signed and dated by Barnabè on the lower right. In 1959, French art critic Michel Concil-Lacoste, in the newspaper Le Monde, expressed his views on Barnabè: "Barnab...
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20th Century Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

L'avenue des Champs-Elysees - Impressionist Figurative Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1950 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This stunning and wonderfully coloured work depicts a view of The Av...
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1950s Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Breakthrough Light Across The Mountain, original painting, landscape
Located in Deddington, GB
"Breakthrough Light Across The Mountain” is a semi abstract landscape painting by Helen Howells. It was inspired by the landscape of South Wales, which is my homeland. It is not of a...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Ocean with Crescent Moon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ocean with Crescent Moon - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Plein Air Masterpiece – Schultzberg's Kolbotten in Autumn, Nacka
Located in Stockholm, SE
This evocative autumnal scene, painted in 1885, coincided with Schultzberg’s breakthrough at the Royal Academy’s Spring Exhibition. At only 23 years old, he garnered the attention of...
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1880s Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Masonite

Ribble Valley Lancashire II, original painting, landscape painting, abstract art
Located in Deddington, GB
Ribble Valley Lancashire II [2023] original Acrylics Image size: H:30 cm x W:30 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:30 cm x W:30 cm x D:1.5cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Paint Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

James - A Brindle Scottie Terrier. Antique oil painting on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Wright BARKER Exhibited 1885 - 1935 Canvas Size: 20 x 26" (50 x 65cm) Outside Frame Size: 29 x 35" (72.5 x 87.5) He was a figure and animal painter who was based originally in Bradford, where he lived until 1885, when he moved to Edwinstowe, near Mansfield, Nottingham. In 1901 he moved to Hampstead and then back north to Harrogate where he stayed until his death. In his later years he became a picture dealer, but in his will he referred to himself as ‘animal painter’. Barker became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1896. Although he called himself an animal painter he is also known to have painted ‘Roman Maidens...
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Early 1900s Victorian Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Surreal Mixed Media Island Scene with Metallic Paint and Gold Leaf
By Gozo
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This mixed media artwork by Gozo presents a surreal island scene crafted with metallic paint, acrylic, and gold leaf on a wood panel. At the center of the composition, a solitary bui...
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2010s Contemporary Paint Landscape Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Antique American School Cubist Signed Framed Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 15H by 19L.
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1950s Cubist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Leslie Peck, "Freshly Shorn" 12x24 Farming Sheep Pasture Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Freshly Shorn", is a 12x24 oil painting on board by artist Leslie Peck featuring a lively flock of freshly shorn sheep and lambs. The animals are framed under a canopy of bright gre...
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2010s Realist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

LARGE BRITISH IMPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING - BLUEBELL WOODS OPEN LANDSCAPE
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Deborah Poynton, British contemporary, signed Title: The Bluebell Woods Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: painting: 20 x 30 inches, frame: 24.5 x 34.5 ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paint Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, 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 Paint Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

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