Tonalist Landscape Paintings

On offer is a late-19th-century Barbizon-style pastoral landscape painting titled "Peace at Pasture," created and signed by the American artist C.B. Robertson in 1886. The artwork de...

On offer is a classic 19th-century or early 20th-century marine painting that captures a serene, atmospheric scene of traditional maritime life. The work depicts a harbor or coastal waterway at dawn or dusk, with multiple gaff-rigged fishing vessels resting on calm waters. The central focus is a large, dark-sailed fishing boat, paired with a smaller rowboat carrying two silhouetted fishermen in the foreground. The piece utilizes a Tonalist style, relying on a narrow palette of muted ochre, brown, and dark gray tones to build depth. The warm, golden light piercing through the heavy, hazy skies creates a dramatic yet tranquil atmosphere. The soaring seagulls on the right add motion to an otherwise still, reflective seascape. The painting is housed in a massive, highly ornate Baroque or Rococo Revival gilt gesso frame. Measuring 3 inches deep, it features heavy scrollwork, acanthus leaves, and corner flourishes. The minor chips and exposed white gesso are common for authentic antique gesso frames...

Henry Ward Ranger Connecticut Landscape oil/panel 12 x 16 image size 21 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 framed signed LL also a plaque attached A wonderful example of Rangers painting style of...

CHAUNCEY FOSTER RYDER (American, 1868-1949), Pasture Lands oil/canvas signed LR 31.5 x 39.5 image, 40.5 x 48.5 framed A wonderfully subtle Tonalist painting by Ryder incorporating ...

Late 19th Century Tonalist Rocky Mountain High Camp Landscape Wonderful 19th Century tonalist painting of Flat Top Mountain in the Rocky Mountains by unknown artist (American, late ...

➡️ Beautiful study Landscape⬅️ Title: Sur les bords du Loing (Seine et Marne France) Jean Baptiste Camille Corot Medium: Oil on canvas Period: Likely mid-19th century Framing: A wid...

Dimensions with frame: 37 x 63 x 4,5 cm. Monogrammed "G.S." in the lower right corner. The painting has been relined. A serene and contemplative landscape depicting the Roman countr...

Yellow Landscape/Wood Interior/Birch Forest, Yellow Landscape oil /panel image 20 x 24 unframed, Framed 34 1/2 x 30 1/2 3 different titles on 3 labels verso Not signed and bears ...

A colorful tonalist landscape and the end of the day by contemporary artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went on to become well known as a ...

This piece, "Moon Over the Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 30x40 oil painting on canvas featuring a landscape at sunset. Remaining light from the setting sun burns the sky in a...

➡️Vivid Antique scene Landscape⬅️ ⏩It is signed J Ch Millet.⏪ Jean Charles Millet (1892-1944) How did Jean-Charles Millet, the grandson of the celebrated painter, become a master ...

Beautiful tonalist landscape at sunset with a figure near a stream by the well known American artist, Charles P. Appel. Signed by the artist lower left. Circa 1905. Condition is ver...

This piece, "Evening Prelude", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 14x18 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the horiz...

A Golden Light Through the Beechwoods Harvey Joiner (American, 1852-1932) Signed Lower Right "Harvey Joiner" (see images) *Frame and painting in fantastic condition being kept in original shadow box. 4 x 8 inches 10 x 14 inches with frame 11.5 x 15.5 inches in shadow box Like his contemporary Alexander Drysdale of New Orleans, Kentucky artist...

Dennis Sheehan Autumn Landscape, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas laid on foam 11 1/2 x 20 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Ba...

Robert Swain Gifford (1840–1905) The Edge of the Forest Oil on canvas, 15 x 23 1/4 inches (38.1 x 59.1 cm) Estate stamp lower right: RSwain Gifford Provenance The artist; By descent in the family to the artist's great-grandaughter, until 2023 Born on a small island near Martha's Vineyard, R. Swain Gifford and his family moved to the New Bedford, Massachusetts, area when he was two years old. The Dutch marine painter Albert Van Beest arrived in New Bedford in 1854, providing the teenage Gifford with the opportunity of study; he collaborated with Van Beest on a number of ship pictures...

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...

Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900 Early California Tonalist painting of the San Francisco Coast and a Whalers Cabin. Possibly by D.A. Fisher (American, 1867-1940). Nocturnal paintings in the late 19th century were very popular in the United States. Condition is stellar and excellent with a period frame having a bit of age yellowing to the finish and the gold leaf filets are beaming. Image, 16"H x 22"D Frame, 22"H x 28"W x 2.5"D Fisher appears to have spent most of his career in Portland, Maine. He was an itinerant artist who painted in the San Francisco Bay area in 1891 and at Mount Shasta...

Dennis Sheehan Last Light on the Marsh, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas laid to foam board 16 x 28 3/4 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is bas...

John Francis Murphy (American, 1853 - 1921) Late Afternoon, 1895 Oil on canvas 14 x 19 inches Signed and dated lower right Housed in a reproduction fluted cove frame. Provenance: Kenneth Lux Gallery, Inc., New York BNY Mellon, New York Christie's New York, Living with Art, October 14, 2016, Lot 352 In his lifetime, John Francis Murphy (1853-1921) was known as “the American Corot.” He was renowned for his small, intimate views of nature, especially barren fields and farms, bare trees, and lonely marshland. More than a century later, the power of Murphy’s landscapes has not waned. One contemporary critic wrote, “It was Murphy’s unique accomplishment to achieve an absolute realism without a loss of that mystic, indefinable quality which transfigures realism.” John Francis Murphy was born at Oswego, NY in 1853 but his family moved to Chicago in 1868 where he worked painting theater sets. Murphy was basically a self-taught artist; his only formal training was a few weeks of instruction at the Chicago Academy of Design. In 1875, Murphy moved from Chicago to New York, eventually rooming with the painters Dennis Bunker...

A fine tonalist landscape with colorful twilight sky at the end of the day by American contemporary artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and wen...

This is a moody, tonalist water landscape painted on acid-washed tin (lightweight metal surface) to achieve a smooth surface to complement the peaceful evening scene. The work itsel...

Late 19th Century Gouache Maine Coast Seascape by Julian Walbridge Rix This seascape is of the Maine Coast by tonalist painter Julian Walbridge Rix (American, 1850–1903) depicting a...

"Inundation" after Carl Fredrik Kiörrboe - Dogs During a Flood Oil on linen painting of a family of dogs in a flood by an unknown artist, unsigned, after an engraving of the painting...

"Early Winter Snow" is a beautiful original acrylic painting on panel, the composition of which centers around a willow tree near a lake, with dense forest sprawling across the hill ...

Contemporary Impressionist pastel of an autumnal woodland scene by Belgian artist Francis Besson. Signed to the very bottom right and presented in a simple gold contemporary frame un...

Brian Sindler was born in Chicago in 1957. He received a bachelor of arts from Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri. Working as a musician for years, he did not take up art until h...

Dennis Sheehan Approaching Rain, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 14 x 23 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School wit...

An exceptional tonalist landscape of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California by Scottish American artist William Keith (1838-1911). Keith was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland and came to New York with his family and apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he was determined to become a painter. He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm...

Dennis Sheehan Glowing Tree Line, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on panel 12 x 17 3/4 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon Schoo...

Early 20th Century Redwood Forest Sunset Reflections Landscape Beautiful early 20th century landscape of sunset over redwood forest stream by William Lemos (American, 1861-1942). A ...

Bruce Crane (1857 - 1937) Autumn Landscape Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed lower right Robert Bruce Crane was an American painter. He joined the Lyme Art Colony in the early 190...

William Crothers Fitler: 1857-1915. Well listed American painter with auction results over $8600. He studied at PAFA and was widely exhibited in the late 19th century and early 20th...

Dennis Sheehan Quiet Meadow, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with f...

Elbridge Kingsley: 1842-1918. Listed American artist whose paintings are very rare. He was born in Carthage Ohio and moved to Hatfield Massachusetts as an infant. He ended up becomin...

Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915 Beautiful early 20th Century tonalist landscape of California by New York artist William G. Schneider...

An antique oil painting in its original ornate gold leaf frame. This tonalist painting depicts figures against a dramatic sunset. The work is signed illegibly lower left. It ap...

Dennis Sheehan Breaking Dawn, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with f...

Urban view with sunset Technique: oil, acrylic, ink on wood frame 40x40cm / 15,7x15,7inch ⏩》R E A D Y -- T O -- H A N G《⏪ 🟢 → Original signed work. Certificate of authenticity i...

Signed lower right: G. Inness

Dennis Sheehan Almost Dusk, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with fai...

Oil on canvas laid down on fiberboard by the American artist, Albert Lorey Groll. Signed lower left and in pencil lower right. Signed verso as well. Condition is good. Circa 1910. Sa...

Dennis Sheehan Orange Sky, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 12 x 24 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with fait...

Dennis Sheehan Daybreak, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 10 x 20 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with faith...

Beautiful mid century impressionist landscape of Colorado River and hills by Wilfred A. Readio (American, 1895-1961), c.1940. Unsigned; purchased as part of collection of artist's wo...

A wonderful tonalist cityscape of New York City at night by American impressionist artist Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll (1873-1941). De Voll was born i...

Dennis Sheehan Summer by the Stream, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 9 x 14 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School ...

Improvisation #64 14.0 × 11″.0× 2.0, 2.0 lbs Encaustic paint Hand signed by the artist Artist's Commentary: "This is one in a series of improvised paintings inspired by the rural area where I live." About the Artist: Missouri artist...

Dennis Sheehan Winding Stream, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with...

William Keith Western Wilderness Interior Signed lower left Watercolor on paper laid on artist board 14 1/2 x 19 inches A native of Scotland, William Keith became in the late 19th ...

George Henry Smillie Farmland Meadows, 1865 Signed and dated lower left Oil on canvas 10 1/2 x 18 inches Provenance Private Collection, Langley, Washington The career of George Sm...

Signed lower right, 'Emerson' for William C. Emerson (American, 1865-1937) and dated 1910. Original card board, verso, was additionally signed 'W. C. Emerson' and titled, 'The Dance'...

Evening on the Pier, a stunning landscape by Marguerite Louis Blasingame and Frank Blasingame (American, 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Marguerite and Frank were two of five artists in H...

Dennis Sheehan Tree Study, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 6 x 12 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with fait...

Dennis Sheehan Autumn Sky, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 7 1/4 x 14 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with ...

A fine tonalist landscape with leaves beginning to change by a marsh by American contemporary artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went on t...

Dennis Sheehan A New Day, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 10 x 20 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School with fait...

William Sartain (Philadelphia, 1843 - 1924, New York) Summer Mist, circa 1880 Oil on canvas 38 x 46 cm 55 x 63 cm with frame Signed lower right and titled on the reverse "Summer Mist...

This piece, "Winter's Warmth", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a traditional snowy landscape just before dusk. Warm afternoon light surrounds fol...

"Sunset" is a beautiful original acrylic painting on panel, depicting a sunset, deep into the horizon and over a hill, with the sky reflecting its oranges pinks and purples. This st...