Raymond Thibesart

Reflections - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Raymond Thibesart

1940

Signed and dated oil on board landscape by French Post-Impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The piece depicts a view of Lake Chambon, near Mont-Dore - with a view of the blue moun...

Signed 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 day. There ...

Signed fauvist oil on canvas riverscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view a river winding amongst wild flowers fields in...

Signed and dated oil on canvas riverscape by French impressionist painter Charles-Victor Guilloux. The work depicts a moonlit view of the River Seine near Yvelines in the western par...

This impressionist oil painting poetically interprets a garden, where aesthetics blend with a scene shaped by human thought and touch. It is a rare example of French painter Jean d'E...

Impressionist Landscape" is an exquisitely peaceful late summer scene along the banks of a quiet river. The dappling yellow and green leaves and the spots of blue sky give the perfect impressionistic feel to the scene. Impressionism was a style or movement in painting originating in France in the 1860s, characterized by a concern with depicting the visual impression of the moment, especially in terms of the shifting effect of light and color. Methven captured this impression perfectly. It is as fresh today as when it was painted in 1902 so much so that you can almost hear the rustle of the leaves and see the shifting light. The gold gilt frame is original to the piece. Without the frame the piece measures 20 h x 16 w. It is signed by the artist. Methven was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In the 1930's he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he painted with other area Chicago artists and showed at The Art Institute of Chicago. He spent his summers in Benton Harbor, Michigan, along Lake Michigan. He is known for his landscapes and water scenes. Michigan has numerous rivers, creeks and small lakes and Methven would have had a wealth of scenes to draw upon for his numerous oil paintings. He studied under Henry Fenton Spread who taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and later founded Spread's Art Academy. In 1902, this academy became the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Spread was named the first president of the Chicago Society of Artists in 1889. Known primarily as a portraitist, Spread also painted landscape and genre scenes. Although a skilled artist, he did not exhibit widely; his primary legacy being fostering a love of art in Chicago. Fellow artist (and former student of Spread), Ralph Clarkson, the noted Chicago society portrait painter, stated that Spread' s "fine and advice formed the careers of the men who were not only to achieve prominence as artists, but to occupy leading places as art teachers". Harry Wallace Methven...

An idyllic summer scene of a river glimpsed from a leafy river bank - more than likely the Seine as the artist lived and worked in Paris. Georges Moisaut (exhibiting early 20th Cent...

Water reflection with blossoms impressionist oil painting by Gorm Hansen Gorm Hansen, born in 1886 in Copenhagen, Denmark, and died in 1952, is a renowned Danish painter. He is prim...