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Impressionist 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
"Along the Tinicum Creek" Bucks County PA Snow Scene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home in Tinicum, Bucks County, PA. Willett has portrayed this charming scene in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and h...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

South of San Luis Obispo, California Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, heavy impasto landscape of a scene south of San Luis Obispo, California by Mike Wright (American, b.1959). Signed "M. Wright 17" lower right c...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

American late 20th century Impressionist landscape with figure, cottage, Sheep.
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted American Impressionist landscape signed Everet. The artist was a Chinese/American painter who lived and worked in Hackensack, New Jersey. I met the artist on many occasions in the late 1990s when I lived in New York and he was a very talented and pleasant chap. I asked him to paint different commissions for a client who wanted a certain color or subject and he was always able to amaze me with what he could produce. I have many paintings by him in my own collection. This is an oil on canvas. The piece was in a private collection towards the late 1990s and has been recently re-framed and revarnished. The artist worked for an Art Gallery called Art...
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1990s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Winter View Delaware River Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American impressionist winter landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 15H by 18L.
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Guardians of the Flowers, Impressionist Oil Painting by Diane Monet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Framed by large cypress trees, the dirt path leading through the garden of this Diane Monet landscape is partially obscured by the flourishing pink flowers in the foreground. Guardi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Red Forest
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Red Forest" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left co...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Barker Original painting on canvas cityscape, Paris street view, Signed, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This painting depicts a classic Parisian street scene, likely from a historical or romanticized perspective. The architecture, with its mansard roofs and ornate windows, is iconic of...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Antique Pre Raphaelite Woman and Butterfly French Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French important portrait oil painting by Achilles Theodore Cesbron (1849 - 1915). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 21 by 29 inches overall and 12 by 20 painting alone.
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1880s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionistic Street Scene with Figures in Aloupak Crimea by Russian Artist
By Anatoliy Lukash
Located in Preston, GB
Impressionistic Street Scene with Figures in Aloupak Crimea by Russian Artist. Anatoliy Lukash was born in 1956 and is based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He is a well-established pai...
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1970s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Impressionist Gilt Framed Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Signed.
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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 Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cabbage Vendors
Located in Atlanta, GA
Justo Revilla, born in Madrid, Spain in 1940 began his artistic career at the age of thirteen where he also attended the Arts and Crafts school. While working in a poster studio he p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"HAPPY STAGING" STAGECOACH FRAMED 18.5 X 22.5
By Marjorie Reed
Located in San Antonio, TX
Marjorie Reed a.k.a. Harvey Day (1915-1996) California, Arizona Artist Image Size: 12 x 16 Frame Size: 18.5 x 22.5 Medium: Oil on Board "Happy Staging" Biography Marjorie Reed a.k.a. Harvey Day (1915-1996) Born in Springfield, Illinois and raised in Los Angeles, Marjorie Reed gained a reputation for paintings of western scenes, particularly Butterfield Overland Stagecoaches and other scenes of cowboys, horses and figures associated with the Overland Mail Route. Sometimes she signed her paintings with men's names including Harvey Day and Fred Day. At age three, she began art lessons from her father, Walter Stephen Reed, a commercial artist, whom she later assisted in the designing of Christmas cards and with illustrations for the Mickey Mouse Beverage Company, affiliated with Walt Disney. In fact, she was so accomplished that shortly after, she was hired by Walt Disney Studios to do animation. But she did not like the regimentation of that work. In the mid-1930s, she studied at the Chouinard Art School and took lessons from Jack Wilkinson Smith, a renowned landscape painters who was a key artist in establishing the Biltmore Salon in Los Angeles. Knowing her love of the outdoors and horses, he encouraged her to roam the countryside. She became a friend of Captain William Banning who had been a stagecoach driver for his father Phineas Banning. She learned the romantic story of the Butterfield Overland Mail Stage, which, from 1857 to 1858, ran from San Francisco to the Yuma crossing on the Colorado River. In her Model-T Ford with her Alaskan Husky dog, she, based in Los Angeles from the late 1930s to late 1940s, traveled the stage-coach route and sketched for the paintings of her project to learn about and sketch various points along the route. Her travels included Palm Springs, which she visited many times after her first stop in 1937, and she also spent time in Julian, a California mountain town. Her "Butterfield Stage" series, about the 1858 Butterfield Overland Stage from St. Louis to San Francisco were completed in 1957 after years of travel and research, and a book titled The Colorful Overland Stage was published with twenty of her color reproductions and text by Richard Pourade. In 1967, she finished a second set of Overland Stage illustrations focused on Arizona. A third set was then devoted to New Mexico and Texas and a fourth set to Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. In her later years, she and her fourth husband, Cecil Creese, a miner, became residents of Tombstone, Arizona in 1963 after living in northern California on the Placer River. According to her daughter, Judy Morris, Marjorie Reed died in 1997, living in the desert near the Butterfield Stage Station in California. Exhibition venues included the Biltmore Salon and Ebell Salon in Los Angeles, the Heard Museum in Phoenix, the Desert Inn Gallery in Palm Springs, and the Palm Desert Art...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Sign In The Light 2, Abstract Art Original Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Voskan Galstian Work: Original Acrylic Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Abstract Art, Title: Sign In The Light 2, ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Sailboats in the Distance - Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dramatic depiction of a storm over the ocean by Vasil (Victor) Papkov (20th Century). Signed "V. Papkov" in the lower right corner. Presented in a gilded frame. Board size: 12"H x 16"W Vasil Papkov...
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1980s Impressionist Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

White and Purple Dahlias Floral Still Life in Oil on Linen on Illustration Board
Located in Soquel, CA
White and Purple Dahlias - Floral Still Life in Oil on Illustration Board Delicate still life of dahlias in a green vase by Gertrud Stimming ...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Illustration Board, Linen

Antique American School Summer Beach Scene Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 18L x 14H.
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Trees on the Coast, Mid Century Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic California coastal scene by an unknown artist. The orientation of brushstrokes in this piece create a sense of movement in the trees and the grass, hinting at the way the win...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Fiberboard

Mid Century Portrait -- Freckled Red Head Boy
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century portrait of a red-haired boy with freckles by Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987). Rendered his signature style, this portrait is clean and vibrant. The subject is looki...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Large 1950's Portrait of Dashing Gentleman Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman European artist, mid 20th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 35.5 x 30.5 inches canvas: 30 x 25 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: o...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

George Whitton Johnstone (British1849-1901) Antique 1876 oil painting Landscape
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original antique oil painting on canvas depicting a country landscape with a Woman and Ducks. Signed and dated 1876 in the lower left by listed Artist George Whitton Jo...
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1870s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Rainy Evening, Impressionist Acrylic Painting on Canvas by Leonid Afremov
Located in Long Island City, NY
Leonid Afremov, Russian/Israeli (1955 - 2019) - Rainy Evening, Year: 2014, Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed lower left, signed and dated verso, Size: 25 x 36.5 in. (63.5 x 92.7...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

"Sunset Pt. Lobos, CA" Coastal Landscape in Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
"Sunset Pt. Lobos, CA" Coastal Landscape in Oil on Linen Oil painting of a coastal landscape by Max Flandorfer (American, b. 1962). Large trees along a path are at the edge of a cliff overlooking the water. The cliff is covered in green grass. Below, there is a dark blue ocean...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Bucks County Winter" Buckingham PA Twilight Snow Scene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home by Buckingham, PA. Willett has portrayed this charming scene in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed m...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique Autumnal Still Life -- Persimmons & Jug
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous early 20th Century still life with classic autumnal fruit persimmons and a brown jug by A. Thompson (American 19th/20th Century), circa 1900. Signe...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

"Winter Landscape" Dale Bessire, Impressionist American Snowy Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Dale Bessire Winter Landscape Signed lower right Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches A founding member of the Brown County Art Gallery Association, Dale Bessire was a native of Indianapol...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mid Century Autumn Landscape, Showers Beneath San Gabriel Hills by Aletha Martin
By Aletha Martin
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Autumn Landscape, Showers Beneath San Gabriel Hills by Aletha Martin Vibrant autumn landscape of a crystal clear stream under the San Gabriel Mountains by California art...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Beginning to shine. Cypresses. Original paintings
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "Beginning to Shine. Cypresses" captures the play of light and shadow—the moment when nature holds its breath before the start of a new day. Four cypresses stand like a ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock" Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock, "Fischerschoner und Segelboote an einem Dock" by Rudolph Guba (German/American, 1884-1950) Impasto work which depicts several sailing vesse...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

French Impressionist Landscape, Spring, The Cherry Blossom, Les Baux de Provence
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid Century oil on panel landscape view of blossom and lambs by Michel Zimmermann. The painting is signed and located bottom right and titled and signed to the back board. Pre...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Yosemite Mountain Peak Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape of upper Young Lake and Ragged Peak in Yosemite National Park by Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). The artist uses textural impasto in a pa...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

CONVERSATION UNDER THE ANCIENT TREE..Yuri Krotov.contemporary Russian artist
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Yuri Krotov 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...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Through The Spring Fields, Early 20th Century Landscape w Wildflowers in Bloom
Located in Soquel, CA
A gorgeous early 20th century landscape oil painting of fields of yellow and blue wildflowers in bloom by Northern Californi...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950s French Charming Charcoal Sketch of a Rustic European Courtyard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European Courtyard Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Ink, Gouache

Afternoon in Gordes, original French Impressionist landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
The legendary French commune of Gordes, a romantic, ancient town in Provence, charms you with its narrow cobblestone streets which in turn entice you venture up to it's 10th century ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Silvery Days, Madison Square Park, New York City" Impressionist Street Scene
Located in New York, NY
Guy C. Wiggins Silvery Days, Madison Square Park, 1962 Signed lower left; signed, titled "Silvery Days" and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Guy Carleton Wiggins is...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionist Oil On Canvas "at the lake" by Jacques Muller
Located in Gavere, BE
Jacques Muller is a Belgian painter and engraver born April 22, 1930 in Brussels and died there May 19, 1997. His work is related to Expressionism without being able to give it a sch...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Waterfall Impressionist summer landscape
Located in Greenwich, CT
Gifford Beal is a very noted American artist represented in American museums and within the Impressionist and Post Impressionist era. Elegant and abstracted this has jewel tones and...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"TARNADO COMING" TEXAS BLACK FOLK ART FRAMED 12 X 29.5
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins (Born 1930) Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist Image Size: 11 x 28.5 Frame Size: 12 x 29.5 Medium: Oil on Board 2024 "Tarnado Coming" Leon Collins Birthdate Unknown Galve...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Antique American 1918 Stratford Connecticut Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Early American impressionist landscape painting. Framed. Possibly signed verso. Oil on board.
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large oil painting on canvas, seascape, Sailing Ship in the Stormy Ocean, Signed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original oil painting on canvas. The painting depicts a tumultuous scene of a stormy ocean, capturing the raw power and intensity of nature. The artist skillfully portrays...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"West Village Coffee Stop" Oil Painting of a Plein Air Street NYC with Figures
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Canvas, Oil

ROMAN HOLIDAY TRIVI FOUNTAIN ..Peter Kuhfeld RP NEAC English impressionist
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Kuhfeld is the only child of a German prisoner of war and an English classical pianist. Between 1972 and 1976 he studied at Leicester School of Art.[1] He worked from 1976 to 1978 at...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Second Cycle, large Abstract, Modern, Original Painting on Canvas, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Voskan Galstian Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2024 Style: Abstract Art, Title: Second Cycle Size: 30" x 40" x 1' inch...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Marathon 2, Abstract Art Large Original Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Voskan Galstian Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Abstract Art, Title: Marathon 2 Size: 36" x 36" x 1.5...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Ray Simonini "Shirley" 16x16 Brown and White Cow Farm Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Shirley" is a 16x16 original oil painting by Vermont-based artist Ray Simonini featuring a brown and white cow portrait with an abstract yellow and blue background. The style is re...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

British Impressionist Watercolor of Seaside Dock with Boat and Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Seaside Dock with Boat and Figures by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: 15 x 11....
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Intersection Figurative art, Social Realism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Suren Sokhakyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 1978 Style: Social Realism, Title: Intersection Size: 40" x 54" x ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Daugava near Lielvarde. 1972, oil on cardboard, 68x93 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seasons and flowers. In 1970 the significant place...
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1970s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 30 x 40 Frame Size: 39 x 49 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dated 1957 "Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 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...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Catedral de Toledo, Espana II
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Fermin Santos Alcade Title: Catedral de Toledo, Espana II Year: Circa 1960 Medium: Oil on canvas board Canvas board size: 28.5 x 21.25 inches...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Ting Hao Landscape Original Oil Painting "Holy Aden"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Holy Aden Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 11 .5 x 8 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2015 Arti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

The Magnolia Tree (Magnolia)
Located in Oslo, NO
Large-format vertical painting in the style of impressionism, painted in oil, palette knife, in the technique of pastoral painting, which gives a 3D effect when viewed. The painting...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Demure Longing" (2024) By Suchitra Bhosle, Original Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Demure Longing" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a young woman looking off into the distance while resting in a doorway. About the Artist: Such...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

1900's French Impressionist Oil Painting Blue Coastline Rocky Shores
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tranquil Shores Paul Molinard 19/20th Century French Artist signed oil on board, unframed board : 10.5 x 14.5 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, France Condition...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"MY GARDEN" G. HARVEY FREDERICKSBURG ARTIST DATED 1985
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 12 x 9 Frame Size: 26 x 23 1985 "My Garden" G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (19...
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1980s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Mt. Rose Landscape
By Nancy Coe
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold mid century impasto landscape of Mt. Rose in oil by Nancy Coe (American, 1932-1998), c.1968. This piece has evocative, heavy textures from the artist's use of a palette knife. Signed in pen in the lower right corner. Gallery sticker on back of frame. Presented in a copper-colored frame. Image size: 27.25"H x 28.38"W Nancy Patricia Coe (American, 1932-1998), was born in San Jose, California to Henry Surtcliff Coe and spent most of her life on Rancho San Felipe in a two-story, brick colonial residence, originally built by her father, on a commercial cattle ranch. With its weeping willow trees and picturesque red barn, it made for a happy home nestled in the heart of San Felipe Valley. Henry Coe State Park is named after her Grandfather Henry Willard Coe. She studied art at Stanford University and graduated in the 1950's. While there, she met S. Gainer Pillsbury, MD, a fellow alumnus, whom she married on June 19, 1956. While an accomplished user of charcoals and Conte crayons, Ms. Coe painted in primarily in oils, showing and winning awards in Reno, Nevada in the early 1960's. Her works, including landscapes and portraits, have been featured in numerous newspaper articles in the Reno Gazette-Journal. Her palette-knife painting of Salvador and Virginia Prado, two ranch hands, was featured on the cover of a Mexican-American history textbook, A Guide to the Study of the Mexican-American by Feliciano Rivera (1969) and published at San Jose State University. Her paintings of Sada S. Coe (her aunt) and Henry “Harry” W. Coe, Jr. are featured in the museum at Henry Coe State Park in Morgan Hill...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Times Square N.Y.C." Impressionist Snow Scene in New York City Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist New York City winter city-scene depicting Times Square in New York City. This piece is done in a most intimate, yet energetic way. Christopher is known for capturing th...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

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