Willard Metcalf

Poppies in the Forest

c. 1880s

This painting depicts the world famous Untermeyer Garden in Yonkers, New York. Sawyer was an American painter, illustrator, and photographer. He took photographs and made paintings o...

George Henry Smillie was an American painter and etcher. He became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1882. He often painted both in oils and in water colour. His favourit...

This is a beautiful Cape Cod Massachusetts spring landscape with a rural farm and water behind it was painted by American artist Aldro Thompson Hibbard (1886-1972). Hibbard was born in Falmouth, Vermont and later became one of the founders of the Rockport Art Colony, living on Cape Ann in Massachusetts and summering in Jamaica, Vermont. Trained at the Boston Museum School, Hibbard carried forth the tenets of traditional academic art into the 20th century. He became very well-known for his New England...

"Farm on Rolling Hills" by August Herman Olson Rolle captures the essence of a rural pasture through a harmonious blend of natural and pastoral elements. Rolle, an American painter k...

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...

Signed lower right, 'Jane Chenoweth' for Jane Chenoweth (American, 20th century). Oil botanical showing a field of vermilion poppies with white and gold daisies contrasted against ...

The Italian outdoors is a common theme in Nelson White paintings. These paintings use the Italian countryside depicting the poppy fields as scene for his paintings. His paintings sho...

A fine tonalist landscape of poppy fields with a single figure walking by contemporary American artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went on...