Impressionist Paintings

Colors of Autumn, Farm oil/panel 8 x 10 image unframed, 12.88 x 14.88 x 1 framed signed LL Colors of Autumn is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Mi...

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...

Medium: Oil On Board Painting Size: 24.25 x 16.25 inches Frame Size: 29.75 x 21.75 inches Condition: This artwork is in good overall condition for its age. Signature: Signed Artist...

Travellers, Horse Drawn Carriage, Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed By French artist J.Dubois, Mid 20th Century Signed and dated '1958' by the ar...

French Impressionist watercolour on paper view of a colourful tablescape still life by Henri Clamen. The painting is not signed but was acquired form the atelier of the artist with o...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...

Antique American impressionist oil painting by David Raymond Daly. Oil on canvas. Framed. Sihgned. Measuring: 24 by 28 inches overall, and 16 by 20 painting alone. In excellent ori...

In April, sometimes it can still be quite cold, especially if the wind blows from the river, your hands freeze almost instantly. This picturesque hill in Kolomenskoye Park has an anc...

In crafting this piece, I sought to capture the serene majesty of nature, rendered through the impressionistic play of light and shadow. The birch trees stand as sentinels over the s...

In this piece, I poured my love for nature and history into every brushstroke. Through the rich oil textures, I aimed to capture the enchanting mix of fading light and the quiet dign...

This painting by Bernhard Oscarsson (1894-1977) is a captivating visual narrative of Stockholm's serene beauty. Oscarsson, a student of Caleb Althin's painting school and the Royal S...

Lilacs and Silver, by Lu Haskew Oil 24x30" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping ...

In the Window, by Lu Haskew Oil 24x30" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping pric...

Summer Bounty, by Lu Haskew Oil 24x30" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping pric...

Fun with Color, by Lu Haskew Oil 22x28" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping pri...

Lilacs and Lemons, by Lu Haskew Oil 22x27" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping ...

Grandmother's White Pitcher, by Lu Haskew Oil 26x22" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. ...

The picture is painted in a light and elegant style. A composition of flowers in a fashionable vase looks impressive . In this work, the artist managed to convey a bright and at th...

Daylilies and Iris, by Lu Haskew Oil 20x28" image size Floral Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping...

Yellow Roses, by Lu Haskew Oil 24x20" image size Floral Still Life Painting of a Spring Bouquet This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unfra...

This original oil on canvas painting depicts a fully rigged sailing ship cutting through rolling ocean waves under a bright, open sky. The artist emphasizes precision and clarity in ...

Goblet of Grapes, by Lu Haskew Oil 24x17" image size Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping price in...

Landscape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind, Ready to Hang Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original oil Painting, Handmade artwork One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2017 Subj...

This beautiful 20 x 24 inch oil painting was created live at Misty Rocky in Carmel-by-the-Sea one of the treasured painting locations of renowned artist Lynn Gertenbach. This breath...

Allegro is a short musical piece. And not just any piece, but a joyful one. Listening to the music, I painted the picture under this impression. On a light grey background, joyful co...

Signed impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin. This stunning piece depicts a view of Crozant a commune located in the department of C...

Floral Fantasy, by Lu Haskew Oil 24x16" image size Still Life Painting of tulips This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping ...

Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1890 by French impressionist painter Paul Vogler. The piece depicts a view of a path running through a golden hay field on a bright summer's day....

The modern and stylish still life with lilacs will become a wonderful decoration of any interior! The painting is 100% hand painted using high quality oil paints on canvas. The uniq...

Olin Travis (1888-1975) Dallas, Tx. Image Size: 7.5 x 11.5 Frame Size: 15.5 x 19.5 Medium: Oil on Board "To a Good Friend A small token of appreciation" Biography Olin Travis (1888-1975) Travis, Olin Herman. 1888-1975. Dallas. Landscape, portrait, and Figure painter, graphic artist, muralist, teacher, writer.     Born and reared in Dallas, Travis attended public schools there.  in his youth he received instruction from R. Jerome Hill...

Flow Blue and Peaches, by Lu Haskew Oil 14x24" image size Still Life Painting This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Shipping pri...

Wesley Lea (1914-1981). Self-portrait, ca. 1940. Oil on canvas, 12 x 17 inches. Signed lower left center "WESLEA" as was his practice in 1930s-40's. Unframed.

Summer Sun, by Lu Haskew Oil 20x16" image size Still Life Painting of Sunflowers, Iris and Roses in Blue Pitcher This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects...

Heaven Scent, by Lu Haskew Oil 20x16" image size Still Life Painting of Mixed Floral Bouquet This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed...

Pink Awareness, by Lu Haskew Oil 20x16" image size Still Life Painting of Mixed Bouquet This painting is unframed, canvas on gator board, the price reflects that it is unframed. Sh...

Artist: Voskan Galstian Work: Original Acrylic Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Abstract Art, Subject: Done By Nature, Siz...

Foggy Coastal Seascape in Oil on Illustration Board Dramatic seascape with coastal cliffs by unknown artist "Kelly" (20th Century). The viewer stands at the edge of the ocean, atop ...

A River Runs Through It - Western Plein Aire Landscape in Acrylic on Board Expansive canyon landscape by California Plein Aire artist Nick White...

Peaceful landscape of a calm stream winding through an autumnal forest by Lorenz Griffith (American, 1889-1968). Signed "Lorenz Griffith" lower left. Titled "Autumn Reflections - Virginia" and dated 1958 on verso. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 35.5"W. Lorenz E. Griffith was born in Indiana; he was active/lived in North Carolina, Florida, Indiana and many places across the United States. Lorenz Griffith is known for luminist landscapes and portraits. He painted in the style of the Florida Highwaymen...

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Sky Trees Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 29" x 54.5" x 1" inch (74 x 138 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrapp...

Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Boats and Lighthouse in a Calm Harbour By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 7.25 x 9.5 inches (height x ...

The greenhouse became a favorite subject of Donald Vogel's in the 1980's. As Vogel reflected in the 1998 catalogue published for his traveling retrospective exhibition, "The greenhou...

Sunny August landscape is full of freshness and heat. We know, that summer is a period of beautiful flowers and the warm Sun. Nikolay never misses the opportunity to go plein air, wh...

The Wave is a seascape study oil painting on panel by Chesterfield NJ artist Michael Budden framed in original frame.. Image is 9 x 12 framed, 15.38 x 18....

Antique American impressionist snow covered landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excel...

Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Evgeny Chernyakovsky "Sunset over the city" 65.0 X 75.0 CM / 25.5 X 21.6 IN HIGH QUALITY oil on canvas Signed on the front and back Dated 2...

Vintage flower landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang an...

JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING American (1841-1916) Raining Pasture oil on canvas, signed "Enneking" lower right Framed dimensions - 15 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches 11 x 14 1/2 inches Provenance:...

Henry Ward Ranger (1858 - 1915) Stony Cove and Headland, 1910 Oil on canvas 28 x 36 inches Signed lower right Provenance: McDonough Gallery, New York William Macbeth Galleries, New York American Art Association, The Completed Pictures Left by the Late Henry Ward Ranger, 1917, Lot 72 A key person in the establishment of the Old Lyme, Connecticut art colony in 1899, Henry Ward Ranger is regarded as the leader of the Tonalist movement in America and was a leading painter in this country in the late 19th and early 20th-centuries. He was born in Geneseo and raised in Syracuse, New York, and in 1873, enrolled in the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University, where his father was a professor of photography and drawing. Two years later, he became a re-toucher of paintings in his father's studio and did not earn a college degree. He also spent much time in New York City, where he was a writer of music criticism and visited galleries, where he had his first exposure to French Barbizon painting...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...

Anthony Thieme (1888 - 1954) Main Street, Rockport Oil on canvas 25 x 30 inches Signed lower right Anthony Thieme was born in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam in 1888. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, at the Royal Academy at the Hague, as an apprentice to George Hoecker, a well known stage designer in Düsseldorf, Germany, and to Antonio Mancini, an Italian Impressionist. After completing his studies, Thieme journeyed throughout Europe and South America, working in stage design to support his travels. Thieme first came to the United States in 1917 and initially worked as a set designer and book illustrator first in New York and later in Boston. By the late 1920s, Thieme had married and moved from Boston to Cape Ann in Rockport, Massachusetts, an emerging art colony. Like the other Rockport artists...

Oil on canvas laid down on panel. This serene landscape depicts a tranquil countryside scene dominated by two slender poplar trees rising gracefully from an open field. Softly rende...

Still Life of Flowers French School, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed in original frame. framed: 17.5 x 29 inches canvas : 12 x 24 inches provenance: private collection,...

Charming early 20th century winter landscape of a grist mill in the snow by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century), c.1900-1910. Unsigned and unframed. Image size: 16"H x 20"W.

A whimsical oil painting depicting figures playing along Lake Como in Europe near an intimate cafe. Lake Como, in Northern Italy’s Lombardy region, is an upscale resort area known fo...

A beautiful 1950's French impressionist oil on board depicting a busy coastal scene with figures on the beach and sailing boats on the sea. The work is very well painted and atmosp...

Edwadian early Twentieth Century Impressionist English Landscape Oil Painting of Findon, Sussex. William Lee Hankey - Large Framed Oil Painting. English Landscape with Sun dappled ...

This captivating painting by Charles Cardale Luck, titled Winter Twilight, showcases the artist's remarkable ability to capture the ethereal beauty of a Nordic winter. The scene depi...

Jerry Ruthven (1947 - present) Austin Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 32 x 44 Medium: Oil Dated 1982 "Texas Hill Country Creek" Bio: Jerry ...

Artist/ School: French School, 20th century Title: The Golden Sunlit Pathway Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 21.5 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, Fr...