Modern Landscape Paintings
MODERN STYLE
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Style: Modern
A Captivating, Expressive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Coastal Beach Scene, Portugal
Located in Chicago, IL
A Captivating, Expressive 1950s Mid-Century Modern Coastal Beach Scene of Portugal by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph T. Pen (Am. 1918 - 1989). Pen travelled extensively throughout Eu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Florence Countryside, Oscar Socec, Swiss, Modern, landscape, Italy, oil
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Oscar Yosef de Kerdsmont Socec was born in 1879. He studied at the Beaux Arts Academy in Paris under Edward Sain and Carolus Durand. Socec painted extensively in Europe in the 1900s, living for seven years on the island of Capri...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Mountain Village, Rooftops
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Colorful Mid-Century Modern Painting of a European Mountain Village, Rooftops by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. . An brilliantly colored, expansive European landscape...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Oil Painting - The Lake, Tenerife Landscape
Located in Bristol, GB
THE LAKE
Size: 40 x 35 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A charming mid century landscape view of Tenerife, executed in oil onto canvas.
This small yet striking painting is filled with details, and encourages the viewer to look further into the distance. In the front of the painting, we see a house and beautiful flora taking space on left and right corners of the painting. As our eyes study the piece further, we can spot 2 figures facing a lake, seemingly in conversation and enjoying the nature view...
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Modernist Signed Oil Rolling Waves at Sea Turquoise & Purple
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Sea
by Louis Eugene Glasser (French b. 1897)
signed
oil on board, framed
framed: 22.5 x 29.5 inches
board: 17.5 x 24.5 inches
provenance: priv...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940's French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Winding River Lush Green Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Winding River
French School, 1947
signed & dated
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 20 x 24 inches
canvas: 14 x 18.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Summer Splendor"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Glassblowers" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City WPA
By Ernest Fiene
Located in New York, NY
"Glassblowers" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City WPA
Ernest Fiene (1894-1965)
Glass Blowers
28 x 23 inches
Oil on canvas board
Signed and dated 1944 lower...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"COASTLINE" WATERCOLOR SAN ANTONIO ARTIST CIRCA 1960s
Located in San Antonio, TX
Margaret Flowers
San Antonio Artist
Image Size: 9.75 x 13
Frame Size: 14 x 17.5
Medium: Watercolor and Ink
"Coastline"
Margaret Flowers
Study Art Pottery under Harding Black. Painte...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Patek Philippe by Roberto Gherardi - Oil on wood 57x88 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Frame measures 103x71 cm
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting, Framed - White Village
Located in Bristol, GB
WHITE VILLAGE
Size: 25 x 50 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A charming and expressive mid-century modernist townscape, executed in oil onto board.
The composition presents a nigh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Reeds 7 March 09:13 - Modern Nature Oil Painting, Abstract, Minimalism
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
1971 Mid-Century Modern Swedish Framed River Landscape Oil Painting - Boathouse
Located in Bristol, GB
BOATHOUSE
Size: 54 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A soothing and restful modernist style river landscape composition, executed in oil and dated 1971.
The composition pres...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Warrior and Pegasus Fight the Kraken - Original Surrealist On Board
Dramatic and dynamic fantasy scene by Russell R. Tripp (American, 1942-2025). This piece depicts a warrior atop a...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage American Modernist Street Scene Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive modernist street scene painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period giltwood molding. Excellent condition,...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstracted Landscape in Acrylic on Wrapped Canvas
By Ilana Ingber
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstracted Landscape in Acrylic on Wrapped Canvas
Vibrant landscape by Ilana Ingber (American, b. 1984). A golden field stretches out towards the horizon, where silhouettes of trees...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
An English landscape with a country house
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Tom Coates (1941-2023)
An English countryside landscape
Oil on canvas
Signed with initials lower left
Canvas Size - 12 x 16 in
Framed Size - 18 x 22 in
Tom Coates (1941–2023) was a ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting - At the Farm
Located in Bristol, GB
AT THE FARM
Oil on Board
Size: 47 x 76 cm 18.5 x 29.9 inches (including frame)
An excellent mid-century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto board.
This expression...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mountain & Lake in Ireland Countryside - Oil Painting by Northern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Mountain & Lake in Ireland Countryside - Oil Painting by Northern Irish Artist, Dennis Orme Shaw
Art measures 12 x 10 inches
Frame measures 18 x 16 inches
Dennis Orme Shaw was b...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed - French Clock Tower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Benard Labbe
Title: The Old Church
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Size:
board: 8.75 x 7.25 inches
Provenance: private collec...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Normandy : Reflection on a River - Original oil on canvas, Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Camille Hilaire
Normandy : Reflection on a River, c. 1960
Original oil on canvas
Signed bottom right
Signed and Titled on the back
On canvas 60 x 73 cm (c . 24 x 29 in)
Presented in...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Seagull in Flight Sunset Seascape, Signed Large Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, signed and dated verso 1976
Title: Sunset Seagull
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18.5 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
El Centro, Puerto Rico
Located in Booklyn, NY
El Centro, is a relatively new area in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This picture depicts The Convention Center seen here in the shadow of a Caribbean sunset. Unusual, rare pigments used i...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Pigment, Archival Paper
Montmartre Paris Windmill Early 1900's French Signed Oil Painting Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Moulin
French School, early 20th century
signed oil on board unframed
board: 10 x 13.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Historic American School Modernist WPA New York City Shipping Dock Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist New York City dock scene. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period modern molding. Excellent condition, ready to...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Modernist "Sailing off Long Island" Framed Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist seascape painting by Lawrence Butcher, Jr. (Born 1936). Watercolor and gouache on paper. Framed. Signed. Image size, 8 by 11 inches.
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Archival Paper
"Vermont Landscape"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century German Modernist Oil Painting Abstract Composition on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021)
Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studies ...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist French Oil on Canvas Boats at Dock Laurent Marcel Salinas Picasso 1975
Located in Portland, OR
A rare & large oil on canvas painting by Picasso's lithographer, French artist Laurent Marcel Salinas (1913-2010), "Boats at Dock", circa 1975.
Salinas was a very talented artist and...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Morning Sun', San Francisco Bay Area Modernist Harbor Scene, Seascape, Seafood
By Jack Wilson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Morning Sun', San Francisco Bay Area Harbor Scene, Seascape, Seafood
Signed lower right, 'Jack Wilson' (American, 1919-1988) and painted circa 1965; additionally signed, verso, ti...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailboats on the Leman Lake Signed A. Carard - Oil on canvas 35x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on canvas sold with frame
Total size with frame 43x60 cm
Signed A. Carard, Artist unknown from the gallery
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Landscape "Pink Hills" Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Measuring 24 by 30 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modernist Dancing Nudes at Orange Sunset by French/ Chilean Artist signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Miguel Anibal (Chile, b. 1935), signed and dated 2013 'Paris'.
Miguel Anibal is a painter, fresco artist and engraver born in 1935 in Chi...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Salomè - Oil on Canvas - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist is a beautiful italian old master painting, realized in the half of 17th century.
Oi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Harvest Fruits & Flowers in Provence
By Robert Vernet-Bonfort
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Harvest Fruits, Provence
by Robert Vernet-Bonfort (French 1934-2017)
signed, inscribed verso
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 31 x 36 inches
canvas: 24 x 29 inches
Provenance: private c...
Category
1980s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century California Industrial Scene Landscape
By Erle Loran
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant California modernist industrial landscape by Erle Loran (American, 1905-1999). Signed and dated lower left "Erle Loran '37." Presented in a gilt wood frame, with faux suede liner, giltwood fillet and off white archival mat. Image, 15”H x 19”L.
Erle Loran was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Art under the direction of Cameron Booth...
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Father & Child
Located in Sheffield, MA
Renato Guttuso
Italian 1911-1987
Father & Child
Oil on canvas
30 ½ by 19 in. W/frame 31 ½ in. by 20 in.
Signed verso "Guttuso"
Signed lower center "Guttuso"
Dated 1966
Titled vers...
Category
1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Original German Impressionist Painting of Forest Interior
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Original Impressionist Landscape Painting of German Forest Interior
A fine example of a German impressionist landscape of autumnal forest interior by Elisabeth v...
Category
1910s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
"Yellow Sky" Oil on Canvas by Jerome Gastaldi #2
Located in Pasadena, CA
This painting features a yellow sky (as Gastaldi named it) and it is part of 3. The #1 one is featuring a red sky and the third one is the desert light.
#1 and 2 show the strength of nature with vigorous large brush strokes and bright colors whereas the colors of #3 depicting the desert light, are more muted and reflect perfectly the desert atmosphere before a storm.
See, attached the pictures of the 2 matching ones.
Jerome Gastaldi, born in Oakland, California, in 1945, is a contemporary artist.
His works have been compared by art critics to that of Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Kienholz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Manayunk Schuylkill River Factory City Scene Philadelphia GIOVANNI MARTINO 1970
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Provenance: Private Collection, San Diego, CA.
Framed
Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art* studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street.
Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River. At this time he signed his paintings M. Giovanni.
These colorful impressionistic* works proceeded more thinly painted dramatically poetic street scenes of the mill town. These images developed into impasto* laden oils in the 1960's with some of the paintings worked with a palette knife*.
In Manayunk, he was a common sight on the streets and sidewalks, painting on-the-spot with his wife, Eva Marinelli and his two daughters, Nina & Babette. In the 1980's and 90's he also painted in Conshohocken and Norristown with his youngest daughter, Babette. His paintings became more sharply executed like his earlier work but were more colorful. In the late '90's he worked in his studio to enlarge paintings.
He is the recipient of over 100 awards and honors. He received the Benjamin Altman Prize in Landscape Painting in 1975 at the National Academy of Design, NYC where he was elected an Academician (NA) in 1944. He mentored not only his wife and two daughters but also taught at Lehigh University and the Graphic Sketch Club, Philadelphia.
He died at his home in Blue Bell on February 1, 1997. (Babette Martino...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Oil, Tempera
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Landscape Oil Painting - Red Houses in Nature
Located in Bristol, GB
RED HOUSES IN NATURE
Size: 30.5 x 40.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A serene and uplifting mid-century landscape painting, executed in oil onto board.
The composition presents a captivating stretch of red houses positioned centrally, creating a beautiful contrast against the lush greenery that surrounds it. The background unveils a serene blue lake, mirroring the vast blue sky above. Beyond the lake, a row of green hills unfolds, extending into the horizon.
The artist’s expressive brushstrokes as well as the overlaying of rich colours contribute to the overall sense of movement and energy within the painting, creating an uplifting atmosphere.
This oil on board is housed in a stunning wide-profiled distressed champagne wood...
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1960s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fontaine à Bel-air, Geneva by Roberto Gherardi - Oil on wood 54x62 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on wood
Frame measures 70x78 cm
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Pastoral
By John Koch
Located in Greenwich, CT
John Koch is a beloved American realist painter who depicted people in their everyday lives. Here we see a slightly different approach where he has put a painter out in a rural town...
Category
1940s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting signed French Chateau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Chateau
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
signed original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 13 x 15 inches
condition: very good and ready ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Figurative landscape oil painting- Red Memory
Located in Beijing, CN
Dai Xiangwen was born in Hunan in 1991 and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Jianghan University,
He is a member of China Artists Association, China Designers Association, a painter of Li Keran...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jungle Fantasy #2 - Landscape Painting - Oil on Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
The flow of botanical splendor bursts in lavish color in the foreground while the palms and trees open the view to distant mountains in this tropical painting.
Jungle Fantasy #2 - ...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Striped Cat In Wonderland - Animal Paintings - Oil on Canvas By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Jungle with creative license of tangled growth and bright flowers and peaking out from the foliage is a strange hybrid of jungle cat. Playful and somewhat surreal.
Jungle Creature -...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rooted Silence
By Paul Grimm
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Paul Grimm. "Rooted Silence" is a landscape painting, oil on board in an earth-tone palette by artist Paul Grimm. It is signed in the lower right, "Paul Grimm".
Paul Grimm (1891-1974) was an artist born to German parents in South Africa in 1891. As a small child, he moved with his parents to the United States. He reportedly was seen as having artistic talent as a child and, as an adult, attended a university-level art school in New York. Between 1910 and 1920, he reportedly went to South America for a few years before returning stateside and settling in southern California.
Grimm gained much of his present-day fame by painting landscapes of southern California in the 1920s. Many works depict alluvial fans and desert vegetation in the eastern half of Riverside County. The San Jacinto Mountains appear frequently in his work. Most of the works are oil on canvas. A residence on Calle Palo Fierro in the Palm Springs Warm Sands Neighborhood was built for him in 1935. He had a studio on Palm Canyon Drive in Palm Springs from the 1950s until his death in 1974.
Provenance:
with George Stern Fine Arts...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pair Swans Stately Home Country House Lake Large British Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Love Birds"
Contemporary British artist, 21st century
oil on canvas , unframed
size: 24 x 30 inches
This came from a private collection of artworks, Surrey, England
The painting is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Modernist Contemporary Oil Painting Fishermen tending nets on Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tending their Nets
French School, contemporary
oil on canvas
15 x 21.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
The painting is in very good and presentable condition.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century River & Farm Landscape in Oil on Canvas Stretched Over Board
A pastoral mid-century landscape with a red farmhouse on the banks of a beautiful river valley by J. Anderso...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Land is Washed in Sunlight
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mostafa Darehbagi is best known for his artistic signature style of combining a series of geometric rhythmic patterns with figurative subjects to create a unique synthesis. Despite ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Cavern 1950 painting by John Atherton
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed lower right: "Atherton", inscribed "John Atherton Original Tempera 7/28/50" on verso.
Artwork measures 16" x 20" and framed 20" x 24" x 2 ½"
About this artists: John Atherton (1900-1952) did not show an early aptitude for art; rather, his first love was nature and the activities he relished there, mainly fishing and hunting. Born in Brainerd, Minnesota in 1900, he learned to fish with his father from the age of four. Later the family moved to Spokane, Washington, and when he was old enough, Atherton worked at a variety of jobs to help support his family. One such job, in the sorting plant of a lead and silver mine, paid $4.25 a day—a good wage, though he never had time to spend his money, since he worked seven days a week.
After serving in the Navy for a year during World War I, Atherton was determined to get an education. He worked as a sign painter and played the banjo in a dance band, finally accumulating enough money to enroll in the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco. Once there, he worked like a fiend, attending classes both during the day and at night, getting the best training available.
Though he had always intended to be a fine artist, Atherton’s first jobs were for commercial art firms. In 1929, using the prize money won for a painting he entered in an art competition, Atherton and his wife moved to New York City. Though the economic situation was difficult in those years, he managed to keep going by taking commissions for magazine illustrations, and over the years he would paint more than forty covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
In 1938, an artist friend suggested that he use the same flat, decorative style as his commercial work for his gallery paintings. This was a breakthrough for Atherton; soon afterwards he held a one-man show at the Julien Levy Gallery in New York, and his paintings began to be collected by museums including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Atherton’s reputation increased to a national scale when he designed the art deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 World’s Fair that strikingly depicted Earth and its atmospheric layers in the lap of Liberty.
Atherton was highly influenced by the magic realist...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Tempera
Lively Geneva street
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1930s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large square oil painting by British RA Fred Cuming 'Fairground, Evening'
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Fred Cuming RA (British, 1930 – 2022)
Fairground, Evening
Oil on board
Signed ‘Cuming’ (Lower left)
30 x 30 in. (76 x 76 cm.)
Fred Cuming studied at Sidcu...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Vibrant, Expressive, Mid-Century Mountain Village Painting by Rudolph Pen
Located in Chicago, IL
A Vibrant, Expressive, Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Mountain Village by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. An open and expansive European landscape painting depicting a hilltop ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Twilight Canopy
Located in Atlanta, GA
The recent paintings of Atlanta artist David Kidd continue an evolving series of images inspired by and based upon natural forms, specifically the shadows cast by trees and other veg...
Category
2010s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Shops on Key Lime Lane - Illustration on Canvas in Acrylic and Ink
Located in Soquel, CA
Shops on Key Lime Lane - Illustration on Canvas in Acrylic and Ink
Delightful street scene by Ann Irvine (American, b. 1943). A series of storefronts are shown in white silhouette w...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
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