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Impressionist Landscape Paintings

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
Sunflowers
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I poured my passion for the vibrancy of nature into every stroke. I used oils to capture the lively, dancing sunflowers, set against a textured backdrop that sugges...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Coastal Village with Boats Resting Ashore
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Coastal Village with Boats Resting Ashore By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.75 x 10.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, u...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Industrial Landscape with Smokestacks and Cooling Towers Under a Cloudy Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Industrial Landscape Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist oil on canvas unframed canvas: 15 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: great condition For more any m...
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Early 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Lavender Bouquet Painting Thick Brushstrokes Expressive Floral Artwork
Located in Zofingen, AG
A beautiful lavender bouquet painting, crafted with bold, textured brushstrokes. The vibrant colors and rich layers give it a lifelike feel, bringing a touch of natural elegance to y...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

French Impressionist Barbizon School Landscape, Autumn Glory and Azeleas
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of a wooded landscape with autumn colours by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is signed top right to the back of ...
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1930s Impressionist 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 Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Morning Glory on Mt. Robinson
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 20" x 20" FRAMED: 24" x 24" x 1.375" Artist Statement “The Sierra Nevada is my favorite mountain range. Over the years, ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

"Toot Tug Boat, Beatons, Mantoloking, N.J." Landscape Shore Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist summer seashore scene of a tug boat and sailboats in Beatons, Mantolokings, New Jersey. Waltsak has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Trees, Print on Canvas, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Print on Canvas Subject: Trees Size: 15.5" x 27" x 0.8''inch, 39x68x2cm Unframed, Stretched on the wooden bar, Gallery Wrapped, Ready to Hang All works a...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Color

Mid Century California Mission Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century landscape of a historic California mission, highlighting its iconic architectural details such as a columned arches, white was...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Gouache, Cardboard

"Grand Basin, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris" Impressionist Oil Painting on Board
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon along the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris by Jules René Hervé on a summer day with the busy activities of people walking and of f...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Bush Lupine" Colorful Impressionistic Spring Time Landscape Oil Painting Framed
By David Chapple
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape with beautiful color tones throughout. David Chapple has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board, Canvas

"Snow in NYC" Impressionist Oil Painting in Style of Guy Wiggins Snow Scene
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of Snow in New York City with figures walking and taxis in the distance. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, light pink, whites, and burn...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Impressionist William Chadwick British/American Landscape with Trees Old Lyme Ct
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Landscape with Trees Oil/Canvas 12 x 16 unframed, 21.5 x 25 framed Painting is in good condition, signed bottom left margin with craquelure in the clouds as shown. Housed in beautif...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

French Street Scene with Windmill and Figures in Impressionist Style
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Street Scene with Windmill and Figures in Impressionist Style by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 10.5 inches (height) x 8.75 inches (width) Gouache painting on board, ...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

Autumn has arrived
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Autumn has arrived" is a miniature painting that conveys an immediate impression of the beginning of the autumn season. Using brushstrokes and vibrant autumn shades, the artist recr...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

A Coastal Scene, Last Light, original 30x40 impressionist marine landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
Oh the stories that this coastal scene at the last light of the day could tell! The sky is nearly flashing as the sun light diminishes sending pools of sparkles on the water's surface. The crew and guests on the schooners, smaller sailboats and dinghy become absorbed in the culmination of their day's journey and the journeys of the passengers in the other remaining boats as they navigate their boats with safe passage to their home dock destination. Rising star fine artist Paul Beebe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Whispers of a dream in bloom
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I capture the delicate dance of wildflowers against a serene sky. Through the blend of impressionism and realism, using oils, I explore the tranquility and subtle v...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impression de Brume - Impressionist Figure in Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figure in riverscape oil on panel circa 1920 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This beautiful piece depicts a worker with his horses travelling alon...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Summer Garden, Landscape Impressionism, 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: 2012 Style: Post Impressionism Title: Summer Garden Size: 25.5" x 34.5...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bird Garden on Blue by Sarah Robertson, Square Floral Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sarah Robertson, Bird Garden on Blue, 48 x 48 in, Mixed Media on Canvas Whimsical and painterly, Bird Garden on Blue is a joyful composition of delicate birds nestled among flowering...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Boulevard de la Madeleine
Located in Greenville, DE
Excellent example of Cortès Paris scene. Provenance: Galerie Haussmann, Paris.Herbert Arnot, Inc., New York, New York (May 29, 1964).Country Store Gallery, Austin, Texas (February 2...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mt. Evans Colorado Mountain Landscape – Painterly Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Experience the breathtaking beauty of Mt. Evans, Colorado, through this stunning original oil painting by renowned artist Ferdinand Kaufmann (1864–1942). Created circa 1920–1940, thi...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Wooded River Landscape at Dusk - Scottish Victorian art oil painting moonlight
Located in London, GB
This atmospheric exhibited Scottish Impressionist Victorian landscape oil painting is by noted Glasgow Boy artist Robert Macaulay Stevenson. Painted circa 1899 the theme is one close...
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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Female Impressionist Wild Flower Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist flower landscape painting by Lila Caroline McGillivray Knowles (1886 - 1979). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 10 by 12 inches.
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Catalan Landscape with Masia oil on board painting spain spanish eupean art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: Antoni Llobet Aracil (Barcelona, 1910 - 1983) Title: Catalan Landscape with Masia Technique: Oil on board Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in Support: Board Framing: Unframed Period: 19...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

English fox hunting scene with fox hounds, men up on horse back in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Gerald Coulson was an English painter in the mid to latter part of the 20th century. Gerald Coulson has been painting professionally for over 47 years ...
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1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionistic Seascape Nocturne Painting Michael Budden Evening Moonlight
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Evening Moonlight Evening Moonlight is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a uniquely beautiful moonlit view of the ocean. A...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Pink Roof Top French Town Landscape Impressionist Oil Framed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pink Roof Top Gardens By Fanch Lel Signed and dated 92' Framed: 13.5 x 11 inches Size: 11.5 x 9.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on thin board, framed Condition: Good condition...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

CLAUDE MONET Style 19th CENTURY IMPRESSIONISM OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century Fine Quality Piece Gold Gilt frame OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century in a Gold Frame Description. 19th century Piece “Good C...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Bluebonnet Time Hill Country Frame Size: 35 x 41 Bluebonnets, Poppies, Oak Tree
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 27 x 33 Frame Size: 35 x 41 Medium: Oil On Canvas Late 1940s-Early 1950s "Bluebonnet Time" Texas Hill Country Landscape 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. While a few of his early works have a soft, tonalist quality, with subtle gradations of sunset colors, most were painted in a style that fits well within the currents of the late American Impressionist style, with solid drawing and a warm, chromatic palette. Like Robert Wood's works of the 1930s, the paintings Salinas produced as a young man were usually well composed and detailed views of the spring wildflowers in full bloom in the Texas countryside. In contrast to Wood's work, however, early Salinas compositions were usually pure landscapes without the pioneer farms or dilapidated fences that Wood often used to add visual interest to his wildflower scenes, and he also painted scenes of San Antonio itself as his mentor Jose Arpa had done. To residents of the Hill Country, Salinas was especially adept at accurately capturing the palette of the region and its unique atmosphere. In 1939 Salinas began working with Dewey Bradford (1896-1985), one of the great characters of Texas art. Bradford was a second-generation dealer whose family operated the Bradford Paint Company in Austin, where they sold art supplies, framed artwork, restored paintings and exhibited paintings by Texas artists. Salinas was struggling when he met Bradford, but the older man took the young artist under his wing and began to sell his work reliably, even though the prices that people would pay for a painting were still low due to the lingering effects of the Great Depression. Bradford was a born salesman with a gift for storytelling, and truth be told, a bit of embroidery. The relationship between Bradford and Salinas was often rocky, but it was to last the rest of the artist's life and give him a modest sense of loyalty and security, things which are all too rare in the art world. While Bradford could be critical of his work, Salinas knew that he had a dealer who encouraged him, believed in him and was not shy about singing his praises to anyone who entered Bradford's store on Guadalupe Street. During the early years of World War II Salinas met a pretty Mexican woman from Guadalajara named Maria Bonillas, who was working as a secretary for the Mexican National Railways office in San Antonio. While he was walking downtown with a painting of a bullfighter under his arm, he started a conversation with the young woman, and things progressed rapidly. The couple were married on February 15, 1942 and settled into life in bi-lingual San Antonio and they eventually purchased a tidy stone home on Buena Vista street that had a detached studio in back. By the time the United States entered World War II, Salinas was starting to make a decent living selling his art and beginning to garner recognition across Texas. However, in 1943, like millions of other young men, he was drafted into the service of his country. Fortunately, as an older Army draftee with special talents, after his training he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, right in San Antonio, allowing him to remain at home while still completing his obligation to "Uncle Sam." Because of his artistic abilities, Salinas was asked to do paintings for the Army as well as a mural for the Officer's Club, which has been re-discovered in recent years. In his spare time he kept working on landscapes and when the war ended in 1945, he was not faced with the same rocky transition from military to civilian life as many veterans. That same year, Salinas became a father as he and Maria celebrated the birth of his only child, Christina Maria Salinas. Like most landscape artists of the era, Salinas was an avid Plein-air painter, and he took his easel and paint box with him on trips throughout Texas and into Mexico. He and his wife traveled deep into her native country, where the artist painted the majestic volcanic peaks of Iztaccihuatl (known as the "Sleeping Woman" because of its unique shape) and Popocatepetl (called the "smoking mountain" because the volcano is still active), south of Mexico City. Salinas also painted studies of rustic villages and their residents. While his most popular paintings were always the scenes of the Texas Bluebonnets and other wildflowers that bloom all over the Hill Country in the spring, he also painted scenes of the twisted Texas oak trees of central Texas, the more arid landscapes of the Texas panhandle and West Texas, and the historic Texas missions; he even sold rapidly executed scenes of bullfights and cockfights for Mexican-American collectors. By the late 1940s, the American economy was finally growing again and wealthier Texans began to collect Salinas paintings, purchasing them from galleries in San Antonio and Dallas and at Dewey Bradford's County Store Gallery in Austin. Salinas also sold work to the Atlanta dealer Dr. Carlton Palmer, who represented Robert W. Wood for many years. In 1948 Palmer sold two large Salinas paintings to the Citizen National Bank in Abilene, Texas. Because Austin was the state capitol, Bradford counted many of the state's elite among his patrons, and due to his interest in history and literature, he played a large role in the cultural history of central Texas. Bradford introduced a number of the major Texas political figures to Salinas' work, including Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973), who was then in the House of Representatives and on his way to winning a controversial election that vaulted him in the United States Senate. Johnson became an enthusiastic collector, as did his political mentor, the legendary House Speaker Sam Rayburn (1882-1961). Johnson decorated his Washington offices with Salinas paintings and he brought a number of them home to his vast LBJ Ranch, near Johnson City, Texas. In spite of his important patrons, Salinas went through a fallow and difficult period in the late 1950s. He had a volatile temperament, which made relationships difficult, and it took great patience for his wife to help him manage his career. As Salinas entered middle age his work began to sell steadily, but except for tourists who purchased his paintings in San Antonio, he was known primarily only to Texas art collectors. All that changed in 1961 with the election of John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) to the Presidency of the United States and his running mate Lyndon Johnson to the Vice Presidency. Johnson was an expansive, larger-than-life character and his status as a long, tall Texan in a cowboy hat was a large part of his imposing political image. During his storied career in the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, Johnson and Lady Bird Johnson (1912-2007) spent their time in Washington in a modest house on the edge of Rock Creek Park, but this home would not do for a Vice President. So, in 1961, the Johnsons purchased a French chateau-styled home in the Spring Valley section of the Capitol. Obtained from the famed socialite and ambassador Perle Mesta (1889-1975), the house came with a fine collection of French furniture and tapestries, and the designer Genevieve Hendricks was hired to meld the French look with objects from the Johnsons' overseas travels and paintings of the flora and fauna of their native Texas. Featured prominently in the foyer were the paintings of Porfirio Salinas. Because of the Johnsons' patronage, his work was mentioned in Time Magazine and other national publications. Lady Bird Johnson loved her landscapes of the Texas Hill Country and told reporters that, "I want to see them when ever I open the door, to remind me where I come from." After President Kennedy's death thrust Lyndon Johnson into the Presidency, he brought his Salinas paintings into the historic halls of the White House, further enhaning the Texas painter's national reputation. At the time of the President Kennedy's assassination, Salinas had completed a scene of a horse drinking titled "Rocky Creek" that was to have been presented to Kennedy during his ill-fated visit to Dallas. Instead, in an effort to memorialize the fallen President, Salinas painted a symbolic work of a lone horse depicted against foreboding clouds. During his tenure in the White House, President Johnson presented a Salinas landscape as a state gift to the President of Mexico, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (1911-1979). During the 1960s, Salinas paintings sold briskly and, thanks to Presidential patronage, for escalating prices. In an interview with a writer from the New York Times, President Johnson enthused about the work of "his favorite artist" and said that, "his work reminds me of the country around the ranch." Salinas was invited to the LBJ Ranch frequently during the Johnson administration and his paintings were hung throughout the ranch, in the President's offices and even in the private quarters of the White House. The connection to President Johnson was a great boon to sales of Salinas paintings, and in 1964, when the demand was at its height, Texas Governor John Connelly (1917-1993) was told that all Salinas'work was sold and that he would have to wait for a painting. In 1960, a half century after his birth, Salinas was honored by his home town of Bastrop, a celebration that touched the modest artist. In 1962 Salinas was given a solo exhibition at the Witte Museum in San Antonio that featured more than twenty of his works. By the early 1960s, sales of reproductions of the artist's landscapes by the New York Graphic Society and other publishers grew rapidly, enlarging his audience throughout the United States. In 1967, Dewey Bradford helped to organize the production of a book of Texas stories titled "Bluebonnets and Cactus" (Austin: Pemberton Press: 1967), which was profusely illustrated with paintings by Salinas. His works were still popular when Salinas died after a brief illness in April of 1973, just a few months after former President Johnson's passing. He was memorialized in the City of Austin by Porfirio Salinas Day, which honored him for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas together with his paintings." Bastrop, Texas, the city of the artist's birth, has been holding a Salinas Art Exhibition annually since 1981. He painted hundreds of scenes of the wildflowers, including the various varieties of Blue Lupin, the state flower, as well as other flowering flora. These show the influence of his artistic mentors Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa Y Perea. Salinas also painted a number of scenes of Prickly Pear Cactus that show the influence of the English painter Dawson Dawson-Watson (1864-1939), who painted many such works during his tenure in Texas. He painted the more arid Texas landscape infrequently and these works are very rare today and sought after by collectors from the Texas Panhandle and West Texas. Salinas also painted many river landscapes along the Guadalupe, Rio Frio, the San Antonio and the Rio Grande. On trips to his wife's homeland of Mexico, he painted a number of scenes of the volcanic peaks as well as scenes of peasant villages and villagers. Figurative paintings are rare among Salinas' works and these scenes of bullfights, fandangos and cock fights are probably the least sought after of his paintings. There are also a small number of modest marines, painted on trips to the Texas and California coast. Salinas paintings are highly prized by collectors of early Texas art, with the paintings of wildflowers in greatest demand. Works by Porfirio Salinas can be found in a number of public collections, including the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas; the Texas State Capitol; the Texas Governor's Mansion; the Lyndon Baines Johnson Ranch; the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum in Bonham, Texas; Amarillo High School; the Witte Museum in San Antonio; the historic Joan and Price Daniel House in San Antonio; the Stark Museum in Orange, Texas; the R.W. Norton Art Gallery in Shreveport, Louisiana; the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center in Pueblo, Colorado; Texas A & M University and the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Salinas has been featured in a number of reference works as well as anthologies devoted to American Western Art...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

WAITING THE BIG WAVE, , , Yuri Krotov 1964 Russian impressionist
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Yuri Krotov was born 1964 in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, located close to the Azov Sea. At the age of 8 he met a local painter G.A. Polugaev who became his ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

19th century Austrian mountain landscape with village, church and town
By Herman Reisz
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Austrian landscape with Church on a mountain . Hermann Reisz Austrian (1865-1920)Reisz was a well-regarded 19th century Austrian landscape...
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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

Large French 20thC Oil Painting Fishing Boats Mediterranean Harbor Port
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Harbor by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) signed with initials oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 15 x 21.75 inches condition: very good provenance: from a larg...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Summer Whispers
Located in Zofingen, AG
Step into a sunlit field where wild poppies and daisies sway gently in the warm breeze. This original oil painting captures the magic of golden-hour light, bringing warmth, romance, ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"BLUEBONNET HILL" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY FRAMED 15.75 X 17.75
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 8 x 10 Frame Size: 15.75 x 17.75 Medium: Oil "Bluebonnet Hills" Pedro Lazcano (1909-1970) I was always curious about Pedro La...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Impressionist New York Summer Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice period impressionist frame. Signed.
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionist Barbizon School Oil on Board Landscape, The 'Gorges de la Bourne'
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of a river gorge by Georges Guerin (1910-1984). The painting is signed bottom right and also signed top left to the back of the board. The painting is also titled and dated to the back of the board, 'Gorges de la Bourne, Pont en Royans, Aout 1937.' A very charming view of a river passing through a gorge and leading to a sunlit and colourful rocky cliff face. Guerin has achieved a wonderful play between light and shade, bright and sombre colours making it at once classical in interpretation and yet also modern and abstract. His technique of thick impasto technique worked with a brush is especially successful and gives the paintings surface a charming quality. Guerin is noted for his landscapes as well as for his Paris street scenes and views of the Brittany coast. The Gorges de la Bourne or Bourne Gorge is a canyon at the bottom of which flows the River Bourne. It connects Pont-en-Royans to Villard-de-Lans in...
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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Village Bridge Scene, original British watercolour painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Village Bridge scene by Ronald Birch, British circa 1970's watercolour on art paper, unframed overall paper measures: 14.75 x 19 inches *FREE SHIPPING ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

Antique American Impressionist Flower Garden Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower garden landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
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1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Bridge Over the Neckar, Town of Heidelberg" - Original Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Bridge Over the Neckar, Town of Heidelberg" - Original Oil Painting on Canvas A beautiful German landscape, by American painter, Betty Brenner (1922-2016), captures the Karl Theodor Bridge and its reflection. Commonly known as the Old Bridge (Alte Brücke), it is an arch bridge in Heidelberg that crosses the Neckar river. It connects the Old City with the eastern part of the Neuenheim district of the city on the opposite bank. The current bridge, made of Neckar sandstone and the ninth built on the site, was constructed in 1788 by Elector Charles Theodore, and is one of the best-known landmarks and tourist destinations in Heidelberg. Brenner, Betty (American, 1922-2016) - Raised in Washington, Brenner attended Cornish School...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Italian Coastal Mediterranean Seascape Framed Summer Panoramic Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted Italian seascape painting. Oil on board. Nicely framed. Signed.
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1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Coastal Oil Painting of Low Tide Shore Fishing with Sailboats and Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Coastal Oil Painting of Low Tide Shore Fishing with Sailboats and Figures By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 13.25 x 16.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, un...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Impressionist Autumn Landscape with Lake / - Diffuse Concretion -
Located in Berlin, DE
Wilhelm Feldmann (1859 Lüneburg - 1932 Lübeck), Impressionist autumn landscape with lake, around 1905. Pastel on cardboard, 46 cm x 31 cm (inside dimension), 52 cm x 37 cm (frame), s...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Gouache

"Along The Creek" Point Pleasant Pike Bucks County Bucks County PA River Snow
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful Impressionist winter pastoral scene of colorful quaint homes by the river. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much feel...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Friday Morning in Sag Harbor" oil painting, Hamptons street scene, en plein air
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Friday Morning in Sag Harbor" is an impressionistic plein air painting of Madison Street in Sag Harbor, New York. Marc Dalessio is one of the world's leading plein air painters and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Apple tree in bloom
Located in Zofingen, AG
This oil painting captures the gentle beauty of apple blossoms in full bloom against a vivid blue sky. The soft brushstrokes and delicate colors bring to life the fleeting magic of s...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Impressionistic Seascape Nocturne Painting Michael Budden Moonlight Sailing I
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Moonrise Sailing I Study oil/panel 6 x 8 image unframed. 11.5 x 9.75 framed Moonrise Sailing is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Carmel Valley Figurative Landscape -- The Roadside Grocer
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous figurative landscape of a Carmel roadside grocer by Edda Maxwell Heath (American, 1874 - 1972). Signed and dated lower left corner. Presented in giltwood frame. Image, 20"H ...
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1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Illustration Board, Oil

Turn of 20th Century Mt. Shasta Landscape with Deer
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous turn of the 20th Century Mount Shasta landscape by Anna Carver Bingham (American, 1849 - 1924), 1901. Several deer gather around calm waters that...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Linen, Oil

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

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Canvas, Oil

Voznesensky garden. Apple trees in bloom. Kolomenskoe
Located in Zofingen, AG
I love this garden in the park. Walking there, you forget about the flow of time, and in the spring, at the time of flowering, when the apple trees try on a white wedding dress, your...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Les Semailles - Neo Impressionist Figurative Oil Painting by Achille Lauge
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas circa 1915 by French neo-impressionist painter Achille Lauge. The piece depicts a view of a farmer sowing seeds in field on a bright spring day. Sign...
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1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Snowy Winter Landscape Impressionist Artist Gianni Cilfone
Located in Rockport, MA
Painting size w/o frame: 14”x16” Painting size with frame: 18”x20” Gianni Cilfone (1908–1992) captures the serene stillness of a snow-covered countryside.His brushwork brings a sens...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

English Farmhouse in Countryside Miniature Oil Painting by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
English Farmhouse in Countryside Miniature Oil Painting by 20th Century Artist Art measures 6 x 2.5 inches Frame measures 12 x 8 inches Framed, Mounted, Signed, Unique Original ...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

French Impressionist River Landscape, Poplars on the Banks of the River Epte
By Claude Monet
Located in Cotignac, FR
French late 19th century Impressionist oil on board landscape. To the other side of the board is a further river landscape (see separate listing LU1430216208672) A moody and atmosph...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

California Coast
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "California Coast" 1978 is an oil painting on hard board by noted California artist Robert Wee, 1927-2021. It is signed at the lower right corn...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

'Cape Ann Harbor', Woman Artist, Massachusetts, Rockport, Gloucester, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Nell Walker Warner' (American, 1891-1970) and painted circa 1925. Born in Nebraska, Nell Walker Warner graduated from Lexington, Missouri, Women's College in 191...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Important Polish Beach Scene Seascape Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique elegant Polish beach scene oil painting by Paul Merwart (1855 - 1902). Finely detailed with great color. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 13L by 16.25H
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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Ohlone Mother and Child Walking Through the Santa Cruz Redwoods - Landscape 1930
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of an Ohlone Mother and Child walking a forest path by Anton Dahl (Swedish-American). Ohlone Mother and child are walking through the North...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Linen

Impressionist landscape paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist landscape paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add landscape paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, green, purple, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Vahe Yeremyan, Iryna Kastsova, Michael Budden, and Marc Dalessio. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Impressionist landscape paintings, so small editions measuring 0.33 inches across are also available.

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