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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
Sail Boats Abstract Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Sail Boats Abstract Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Sail Boats Abstract Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

By Vahe Yeremyan

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Sail Boats Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025 Style: Contemporary Art Dimensions: 44" x 63" x 1" inch (112 x 160 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrap...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

Mountain Herbs
Mountain Herbs

Mountain Herbs

Located in Zofingen, AG

A sunny summer landscape captures fiery magenta fireweed blooms in the foreground. Majestic mountains rise in soft blue and purple hues. The scene is full of color, warmth, and the q...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Above the Olive Grove, Oil Painting
Above the Olive Grove, Oil Painting

Above the Olive Grove, Oil Painting

By Lisa Elley

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The painting draws inspiration from the charming architecture of traditional Italian villages. The light accentuates the quaint stone walls and shutters, while ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Morning in Canyon"
"Morning in Canyon"

"Morning in Canyon"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Cacti, flowers, mountains, and sun—a combination of strength and tenderness, survival and beauty, light and silence. This painting exudes warmth, freedom, and natural harmony. The vi...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Le Passage Difficile" Impressionist Countryside Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
"Le Passage Difficile" Impressionist Countryside Oil Painting on Canvas Framed

"Le Passage Difficile" Impressionist Countryside Oil Painting on Canvas Framed

By Jules René Hervé

Located in New York, NY

An exceptional impressionistic painting titled 'The Difficult Passage' depicting an afternoon along the River with Figures throughout by Jules René Hervé. Here the scene is set on a ...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunset in Maksimkovo
Sunset in Maksimkovo

Sunset in Maksimkovo

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This sketch, painted by the artist from plain air near Maksimkovo, is a dramatic landscape at sunset, capturing the approach of rain on the slope of the day and the transition from d...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Canoe, Nautical, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Canoe, Nautical, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Canoe, Nautical, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

By Vahe Yeremyan

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Nautical, Contemporary art, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 202...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Oil Painting of Remote Cottage in the Dramatic Mountains of South Africa
Vintage Oil Painting of Remote Cottage in the Dramatic Mountains of South Africa

Vintage Oil Painting of Remote Cottage in the Dramatic Mountains of South Africa

Located in Preston, GB

Vintage Oil Painting of Remote Cottage in the Dramatic Mountains of South Africa, by South African Artist, Marthinus la Grange (1920-1999) Art measures 14 x 10 inches Frame measur...

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1980s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Gloucester Harbor" Impressionist Sail Boats on the Water Oil Painting Framed
"Gloucester Harbor" Impressionist Sail Boats on the Water Oil Painting Framed

"Gloucester Harbor" Impressionist Sail Boats on the Water Oil Painting Framed

By John Terelak

Located in New York, NY

A truly masterful depiction of several colorful sail boats in Gloucester Harbor, scene on the reflective water with a glowing sun shimmering through the puffed clouds. An oil on boar...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

Rocky Outcropping and Bathers Landscape Painting, Signed, 1968
Rocky Outcropping and Bathers Landscape Painting, Signed, 1968

Rocky Outcropping and Bathers Landscape Painting, Signed, 1968

By Tyler Micoleau

Located in Soquel, CA

Highly textured landscape, with thick impasto illustrating a glorious scene of figures swimming in calm waters near large rocks and swaying trees, by Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001). Signed and dated "Tyler Micoleau 1968" in the lower left corner. Presented in a gold colored wood frame. Image size: 12"H x 16"W Tyler Micoleau (American, 1911-2001) was born in Rhode Island but spent most of his life in Nevada County, California. He was a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and an instructor at Brown University. Micoleau moved to Nevada City...

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1960s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Impressionistic Farm Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Spring Farm Study
Impressionistic Farm Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Spring Farm Study

Impressionistic Farm Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Spring Farm Study

By Michael Budden

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Spring Farm Study oil/panel 8x12 image unframed, 13.38 x 17.8 framed, Spring Farm is a beautiful impressionistic landscape oil painting that I did on location near my studio in 2016....

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dance of Light
Dance of Light

Dance of Light

Located in Zofingen, AG

I painted this piece in oil to capture the freshness and brightness of spring sunlight. Have you noticed how it shimmers on an early morning? These blooming daffodils radiate renewal...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Morning on the Lake
Morning on the Lake

Morning on the Lake

Located in Zofingen, AG

In crafting this piece, I poured my emotions into every brushstroke, allowing the acrylics and oils to dance together in an impressionistic symphony. I sought to capture the ephemera...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Venice Carnival"
"The Venice Carnival"

"The Venice Carnival"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The painting depicts a stylised portrait of a woman, executed in a textured, almost sculptural style. The woman’s face is rendered in a generalised manner: her features are softly bl...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Le Bouquet' French Floral Still Life, Flower Oil Painting
'Le Bouquet' French Floral Still Life, Flower Oil Painting

'Le Bouquet' French Floral Still Life, Flower Oil Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

'Le Bouquet' Floral Still Life, Flower Oil Painting French School, mid 20th Century Oil painting on canvas, framed Framed size: 29 x 18 inches Beautiful oil painting of a lovingly c...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Le Cafe Briard - Paris - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Edouard Cortes
Le Cafe Briard - Paris - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Edouard Cortes

Le Cafe Briard - Paris - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Edouard Cortes

By Édouard Leon Cortès

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed impressionist oil on canvas figures in cityscape circa 1930 by sought after French painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts a bustling evening street scene outside the Cafe Br...

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1930s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Breathed cold, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Breathed cold, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Breathed cold, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Boris Serdyuk Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Style: Impressionism Year: 2020 Title: Breathed cold Size: 16.5" x 23.5" x ...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Autumn Mood - autumn landscape painting
Autumn Mood - autumn landscape painting

Autumn Mood - autumn landscape painting

Located in Zofingen, AG

The first days of autumn, the Sun is still warm, fallen leaves are floating calmly on the surface and give a feeling of calm and peace. The painting "Autumn Mood" is painted en plei...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Louis Emiel Chappel (1888-1963) "Floral Still Life II" Original Painting c.1950
Louis Emiel Chappel (1888-1963) "Floral Still Life II" Original Painting c.1950

Louis Emiel Chappel (1888-1963) "Floral Still Life II" Original Painting c.1950

By Louis Emiel Chappel

Located in San Francisco, CA

Louis Emiel Chappel (1888-1963) floral still life II oil painting, circa 1950s Beautiful full basket bouquet of flowers on a pedestal by listed artist Louis Chappel. Original oil o...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Impressionistic Landscape Painting Michael Budden Lumberville Bridge Bucks Co
Impressionistic Landscape Painting Michael Budden Lumberville Bridge Bucks Co

Impressionistic Landscape Painting Michael Budden Lumberville Bridge Bucks Co

By Michael Budden

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Lumberville, Pedestrian Bridge The image measures 9 x 12 unframed and 17 x 19.75 framed signed LR Lumberville, Pedestrian Bridge, is an impressionistic landscape plein air oil pain...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Ocean Side, Print on Canvas, Ready to Hang
Ocean Side, Print on Canvas, Ready to Hang

Ocean Side, Print on Canvas, Ready to Hang

By Vahe Yeremyan

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Print on Canvas Subject: Ocean Side, Size: 12" x 15" x 0.8''inch, 30x38x2cm Unframed, Stretched on the wooden bar, Gallery Wrapped, Ready to Hang All wor...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Color

Huge French Signed Oil Painting Provencal House in Floral Garden Large Canvas
Huge French Signed Oil Painting Provencal House in Floral Garden Large Canvas

Huge French Signed Oil Painting Provencal House in Floral Garden Large Canvas

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Provencal House French, mid/second half 20th century indistinctly signed oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 28.75 x 47 inches canvas: 22.75 x 46 inches condition: very good...

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Spring Blossom
Spring Blossom

Spring Blossom

Located in Zofingen, AG

I adore lilac flowers. There were various kinds of them in my granny's yard. After the lilac blossom, the summer starts. And that means hot weather, long days, lots of flowers and fr...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Harbour Scene with Moored Fishing Boats by Fanch Lel
French Impressionist Harbour Scene with Moored Fishing Boats by Fanch Lel

French Impressionist Harbour Scene with Moored Fishing Boats by Fanch Lel

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French Impressionist Harbour Scene with Moored Fishing Boats by Fanch Lel By Fanch Lel Size: 19.5 x 20.75 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Condition...

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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bay
Bay

Bay

Located in Zofingen, AG

I've channeled the magic of changing lights and the fluidity of water into this creation, using acrylic and oil for depth and texture. Inspired by expressionism and impressionism, th...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Tossa de Maria . Original painting
Tossa de Maria . Original painting

Tossa de Maria . Original painting

Located in Zofingen, AG

This painting is like the wonderful moments of a beautiful summer. Which I want to remember for the rest of my life and keep for myself.This is the most wonderful place - Tossa de Ma...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1930's French Post-Impressionist Oil Beautiful Still Life Natural Flowers
1930's French Post-Impressionist Oil Beautiful Still Life Natural Flowers

1930's French Post-Impressionist Oil Beautiful Still Life Natural Flowers

By Cécile HERTZ-EYROLLES (1875-1974)

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Still Life of Flowers in a Vase by Cécile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974) stamped with the artists studio mark oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 15 x 18 inches Provenance: the artists esta...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Lazy Days Blues"  TEXAS BLUEBONNETS,  NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
"Lazy Days Blues"  TEXAS BLUEBONNETS,  NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950

"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950

By Porfirio Salinas

Located in San Antonio, TX

Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet 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 is 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

Signed Vintage American Winter Impressionist Framed Landscape Original Painting
Signed Vintage American Winter Impressionist Framed Landscape Original Painting

Signed Vintage American Winter Impressionist Framed Landscape Original Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 15 by 12 inches overall, and 12 by 10 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist 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 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, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Vahe Yeremyan, Richard Szkutnik, Iryna Kastsova, and Michael Budden. 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 paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.