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Style: Tonalist
French School Impressionist Landscape Signed oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Vivid Landscape⬅️ ⏩It is signed J Moreau, probably Jacques Gaston Moreau (1903-1994) ⏪ Jacques Gaston Moreau (1903-1994) was a French painter renowned for his evocative landscape...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

French school Landscape river scene Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ 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...
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1850s Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

French School Impressionist Rural Landscape Signed oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Vivid Landscape⬅️ ⏩It is signed R Dufils, probably Roland Dufils (1920-1973) Paris 7th ⏪ Roland Dufils was a French painter born in Maromme, a commune in the Normandy region of F...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Still life - FRENCH SCHOOL - Lemon Starwars Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Lemon Starwars ⭐ This painting is a vibrant and textured representation of lemons, blending realism with expressive abstract elements. ⏩Subject & Composition⏪ The painting promin...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life painting from C Romey⬅️ This is a still-life painting depicting a variety of fruits spilling from a wicker basket onto a table with a white and red cloth. The artwork f...
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20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Oil, Stretcher Bars

French school Medieval scene Landscape Oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Medieval scene from anonymous painter ⭐Structural Analysis :⭐ Medieval composition due to the tunic worn by the character (at the bottom of the painting) walking their dog. The cen...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Oil, Stretcher Bars

French School Road Line III New York City Impressionist Chut Les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
☀️⭐Road Line III ⭐☀️ Landscape - Sky scrappers, office- NYC Building avenue Painting with mirror effect Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden strecher frame ...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

French school Provence landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Landscape of the Pyrenees ⬅️ This lovely artwork is landscape painting...looks to a Vincent Van Gogh painting ⭐Structural Analysis⭐ The painting depicts a river flowing through...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Oil, Gesso, Wood Panel, Stretcher Bars

French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life from J Robert⬅️ 🟢Jacques Robert (1921–1997) was a French writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Born on June 27, 1921, in Lyon, France, he began his career in journalis...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Oil, Stretcher Bars, Canvas, Linen

Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, Oregon Lake with Birds Migrating
Located in Soquel, CA
Three Sisters in the Cascade Range, Oregon Landscape scene depicting three snowcapped mountains, also known as "The Three Sisters," surrounded by evergreen trees by John Englehart...
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Late 19th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil, Linen

French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life from J Robert⬅️ 🟢Jacques Robert (1921–1997) was a French writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Born on June 27, 1921, in Lyon, France, he began his career in journalis...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

French school The River Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️The River from Rousseau⬅️ "Il est tombé par terre, C'est la faute à Voltaire, Le nez dans le ruisseau, C'est la faute à Rousseau" - He fell to the ground, It's Voltaire's fault, H...
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1890s Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

19th Century French School Landscape BARBIZON Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Rustic Cottage in a Woodland Clearing⬅️ ☀️Subject & Setting☀️ A thatched-roof cottage sits in a clearing surrounded by dense, slender trees with soft foliage. A winding dirt path ...
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Early 1800s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Chauncey Foster Ryder Landscape with Figures Oil Painting 1868-1949 Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
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 a farmer/farmhand probably moving cows about the pastures mid right in the scene. Ryder uses a subtle S design from lower left that zig zags up to the figure and cows. The painting shows Ryder's masterful use of abstract design and technique utilizing textures in his application of paint giving the painting life and interest. Original frame, some craquelure in sky, old surface. Bears Newhouse Galleries, possibly NYC, label verso. The painting hangs in my collection currently and would benefit from a cleaning and new varnish. It is a large museum quality oil painting. SHIPPING-This will need In Home Delivery service as it is too large for me to pack. The handling time is listed as 10 days but is dependent on who 1stdibs hires and their schedule to pick up and deliver. 3 -7 weeks is listed in the shipping section for this service. Buyer can also arrange for their own pick up. Bio- Chauncey Foster Ryder (29 February 1868 – 18 May 1949)[1] was an early 20th century American Postimpressionist Tonalist landscape painter known for a green-gray palette termed 'Ryder green'. Education and personal life Ryder was born in 1868 in Danbury, Connecticut, but grew up mainly in New Haven.[2][3] He began studying painting as a boy. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute,[4] then Smith's Academy.[5] After only a year at the latter, he was hired as an instructor.[5] In 1891, he married Mary Dole Keith.[5] In 1901, they moved to Paris, France, where Ryder continued his art education, studying with Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Ryder stayed in France for several years, living in an art colony at Étaples and exhibiting his work at the Paris Salon (1903–1909).[3] He took on occasional students, including American painter William Posey Silva...
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20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil

"Autumn, New England" Charles Warren Eaton, Tonalist Gloaming Sunset in Woods
Located in New York, NY
Charles Warren Eaton Autumn, New England Signed lower right Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches Provenance Private Collection, Connecticut A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings o...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dennis Sheehan, "Moon Over the Marsh", 30x40 Sunset Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
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...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait PUG Dog - FRENCH SCHOOL - Where is my body?03 Chut les Barbizons! DOG
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait of a Pug _ dog. In the artistic world, animals have always been key protagonists in expressing the power and beauty of the wild. Artists often use animals as symbols to co...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

French School Impressionist Landscape Le Mont Saint Michel Signed oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Vivid Landscape Le Mont Saint Michel⬅️ ⏩It is signed J Moreau, probably Jacques Gaston Moreau (1903-1994) ⏪ Jacques Gaston Moreau (1903-1994) was a French painter renowned for hi...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Portrait Siberian Kitten Cat - FRENCH SCHOOL
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait of a Siberian kitten Technique: oil, acrylic, glue, ink on old book pages on wooden frame 40x40cm ■■ 15,7 x15,7inch ⭐Sustainability⭐: Wooden frame is made by the artist b...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Paper

Early Tonalist Landscape -- California Coastal Live Oaks William Schneider 1915
Located in Soquel, CA
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 ...
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1910s Tonalist Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Still life - FRENCH SCHOOL - Apple Starwars Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Apple Starwars ⭐ This painting is a striking representation of an apple, blending realism with expressive abstract elements. ⏩Subject & Composition⏪ The painting features a single...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Emil Carlsen American Impressionist landscape oil Painting Salmagundi Club
By Soren Emil Carlsen
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Yellow Landscape/Wood Interior/Birch Forest 3 different titles on 3 labels DESCRIPTION Yellow Landscape oil /panel bears Florence G. Carlsen Estate stamp on Brett Mitchell Collecti...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil

Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape with Oak Trees
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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1890s Tonalist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

French School - Poppy Starwars oil Painting - th century Original
Located in Zofingen, AG
Poppy Starwars Structural analysis: _ Feeling of the wind in the flowers_ Abstract drippings bring movement to the still life painting. There are 2 systems of contrasts. First one...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Still life - FRENCH SCHOOL - Garlic Starwars Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Garlic Starwars ⭐ This painting follows the same expressive, semi-abstract style as the previous ones, featuring a textured and dynamic portrayal of garlic. ⏩Subject & Composition...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Twilight Over The Marsh
Located in Milford, NH
A pleasant tonalist landscape with twilight over the marsh by American contemporary artist Dennis Sheehan (b. 1950). Sheehan was born in Boston, Massachusetts and went on to become w...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Henry Ward Ranger Connecticut Landscape Oil Painting 1858–1916 American Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Henry Ward Ranger Connecticut Landscape oil/panel 12 x 16 image size 21 3/8 x 25 3/8 x 2 3/4 framed A wonderful example of Rangers painting style of glazes and areas of impasto text...
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20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil

FRENCH SCHOOL Urbanscape La defense France PARIS - SNOW - Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐ La Défense ⭐ It's a cityscape, dominated by modern, high-rise buildings (Sky scrappers, office in Paris ) buried on snow.. The architecture suggests a contemporary urban environme...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

FRENCH SCHOOL Garlic & Chili pepper Starwars Impressionist - Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐ Garlic and Chili Peppers starwars ⭐ The still life focuses on two main elements: bright red chili peppers and garlics. The composition is dynamic, with the peppers clustered in t...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

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Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Dennis Sheehan, "Across the Marsh", 18x24 Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Across the Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x24 oil painting on canvas featuring a marshy green landscape at dusk. This moody painting shows tree line at the hori...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dennis Sheehan, "Twilight Marsh", 19x28 Dusk Moody Tree Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Twilight Marsh", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 19x28 tonalist oil painting on canvas featuring a moody marshy green landscape just b...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dennis Sheehan, "Autumn Afternoon", 18x30 Dusk Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Autumn Afternoon", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 18x30 oil painting on canvas featuring a landscape at dusk. Remaining light from the...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French School Red Converse shoes Oil READY TO HANG Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
🟢☀️Still Life Red Converse shoes☀️🟢 Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars as an iconic imagery from Pop Culture. ⭐Technique⭐: oils, acrylics and ink on old book pages, mounted on a woo...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Glue, Mixed Media, Stretcher Bars

"Farmland Meadows" George Henry Smillie, Hudson River School, Sunset Landscape
Located in New York, NY
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...
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1860s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dennis Sheehan, "Mid Fall" 12x12 Tonalist Tree Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Mid Fall", by artist Dennis Sheehan is a 12x12 oil painting on canvas featuring a daytime landscape setting during autumn. Tree leaves are deep reds, purple, oranges an...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Landscape by Chicago Artist Tellander, 1921
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A. Frederick Tellander (American, 1878-1977) Landscape, 1921 Oil on canvas, 32 x 38 inches Framed: 36 x 42 inches (approx.) Signed and dated at lower right: "Frederic Tellander...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Venetian Boats at Sotto Marino" is a painting by Edgar Alwin Payne. The painting is signed lower left, "Edgar Payne". The framed piece measures 31 1/2 x...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Tonalist Painting Sunset Figures Wheat Barbizon Framed 19th Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
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...
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1860s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dennis Sheehan, "Evening Prelude", Moody Sunset Tonalist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
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...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait Blue Miles Davis French School READY TO HANG Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
Portrait Blue Miles Davis Portrait of the famous Miles Davis Technique: oil, acrylics and ink on canvas 73x60cm ■■ 28,7x23,6inch ⏩》R E A D Y -- T O -- H A N G《⏪ 🟢 → Original ...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Oil, Acrylic, Gesso, Canvas, Stretcher Bars

French School Landscape BARBIZON Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Rustic Cottage in a Woodland Clearing⬅️ This painting, signed simply 'Adam,' appears to be the work of an artist closely associated with the Barbizon school—a movement that emerge...
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1830s Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

"November" Bruce Crane, Tonalism Landscape Autumn Scene, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Bruce Crane (1857 - 1937) November 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 1900s. His ...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French School Impressionist The old watermill oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Vivid Landscape⬅️ ⏩It is signed R Hesse, probably René Jean Hesse (1910-2000) ⏪ René Hesse was a French painter whose art captured the essence of rural Lorraine with remarkable s...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

New York City Street Scene at Night
By Frederick (Frank) Usher De Voll
Located in Milford, NH
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...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Early 20th Century Redwood Forest Sunset Reflections Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
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 ...
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1930s Tonalist Paintings

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Oil

Autumnal San Francisco Cove and Surf with Whalers Shack circa 1900
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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1890s Tonalist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Portrait Ou veux tu que je... French School Impressionist Pop 246 READY TO HANG
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐ French School - PS 246 Ou veux tu que je regarde ⭐ Portrait of a woman sitting on the beach with balloon from Banksy Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden ...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Acrylic, Stretcher Bars, Mixed Media, Oil

Mid Century Colorado River Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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1940s Tonalist Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Late 19th Century Tonalist Rocky Mountain High Camp Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
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 ...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Boat at the Dock, Alviso Bay Area Tonalist Landscape Watercolor by Iku Nagai
Located in Soquel, CA
Boat at the Dock, Alviso Bay Area Tonalist Landscape Watercolor by Iku Nagai Lovely Tonalist watercolor landscape of Alviso, California by Iku K. Nagai (Japanese/American, b. 1932)....
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1980s Tonalist Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California
Located in Milford, NH
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...
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1880s Tonalist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Elbridge Kingsley 19th Century Tonalist Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
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 becoming a successful wood engraver printing a lot of George Inness and Albert Pinkham Ryder...
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Late 19th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil

Tonalist Landscape
Located in Milford, NH
A fine tonalist landscape by American artist J. Francis Murphy (1853-1921). Murphy was born in Oswego, New York, he moved to Chicago in 1868, where his father was employed in the shipping industry. In Chicago, Murphy began working as a scene painter in a local theatre and was quickly promoted to lead his co-workers. Largely self-taught, his only training consisted of a few classes at the Chicago Academy of Design. There he became friends with Emil Carlsen and Theodore Robinson, and in 1873, Academy members elected him an Associate; a few weeks later, he became an Academician. His work was first exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1876, where he was inducted eleven years later.He won numerous prizes, medals and honors for his landscape paintings, which are said to rank with those of George Inness, Alexander Wyant, and Homer Martin. Although his world was a limited one, his landscapes captured the forms of nature and the subtle nuances of the scene. Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of Camille Corot (1796-1875), one of the original Barbizon...
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Early 1900s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Winter Rooftops
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Gustave Wolff
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20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil

"Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, " Mountain Lake Landscape View
Located in New York, NY
Charles Warren Eaton (1857 – 1937) The Shadow of Mount Rockwell, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1921 Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Signed lower right: CHAS WARREN EATON. Provenance: The artist The Macbeth Gallery, New York Private Collection Sotheby's New York, American Art, April 14, 1989 ConocoPhillips, Houston Simpson Galleries, Houston, Fine Art & Antiques, May 18, 2019, Lot 447 Exhibited: New York, The Macbeth Gallery, Paintings of Glacier National Park by Charles Warren Eaton, December 13, 1921 - January 2, 1922, no. 2. Literature: "Two Exhibitions at Macbeth's," American Art News, New York, Vol. XX, No. 10, December 17, 1921. A contemporary critic wrote that the paintings of Charles Warren Eaton appeal to “the dreamers who find in them the undiscovered scenes in which their fancy long has dwelt.” Eaton’s contemplative landscapes exude a spiritual quality that moves the observer into a similar frame of mind. He loved to depict the ethereal light of dawn and dusk in late autumn or winter, usually without any reference to human or animal figures or buildings. These Tonalist paintings, with their subdued palette and relatively intimate scale, marked a definite break with the fading popularity of the panoramic and romantic views of the Hudson River School painters. Charles Warren Eaton was born in Albany, New York to a family of limited means. He began painting while working in a dry-goods store. At age 22, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design in New York City and then studied figure painting at the Art Students League. By 1886, he was successful enough to quit his day job and make a living as a landscape painter. That year, he traveled to Europe with fellow Tonalist painters Leonard Ochtman and Ben Foster. In France, Eaton visited popular artist’s spots such as Paris, Fontainebleau and Grez-sur-Loing, and fell in love with the loose brushwork and moody style of French Barbizon painting. Returning to the United States, Eaton fell under the spell of George Inness, the foremost exponent of Barbizon style in the United States. In 1888, Eaton settled near Inness in Bloomfield, New Jersey, where Eaton lived until his death in 1937. In this period, he painted shadowy and ambiguous landscapes inspired by rural scenery in the northeastern United States. His signature theme was a cropped view of the branches, trunks, and foliage of a pine grove silhouetted against a delicately illuminated sunset or moonlit sky. He painted this vision so often between 1900 and 1910 that he picked up the sobriquet ‘‘The Pine Tree Painter.” After 1910, Eaton responded to the popularity of Impressionism by using brighter colors and painting sunlit daytime scenes. In 1921, he was hired to paint Glacier Lake, in Glacier National Park by the Great Northern Railroad Company as part of their ‘See America First’ campaign. He produced more than 20 paintings, among the artist's last works, that now poignantly remind viewers of the vast disappearing glaciers. Eaton tended to approach this mountain scenery from an oblique vantage point; he liked to capture small episodes, showing mountaintops nearly obscured by dramatically attenuated screens of fir trees. Eaton, like many Tonalist artists of his generation such as Henry Ward Ranger, John Francis Murphy, and Charles Melville Dewey...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Oil

Evening on the Pier looking into the Tunnel - Mid Century Abstract Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
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...
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1940s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

"After the Rain"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right Known for his Tonalist-style landscape paintings, John Francis Murphy was referred to as the "American Corot" because of his similarity to the painting style of Camille Corot (1796-1875), one of the original Barbizon...
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Late 19th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Leaves Beginning To Change
Located in Milford, NH
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...
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2010s Tonalist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century Tonalist Pastel Landscape
By William Henry Chandler
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Tonalist Pastel Landscape Beautiful tonal landscape, c.1915, by pastel artist William Henry Chandler (American, 1854-1928). The viewer looks out over a serene riv...
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1910s Tonalist Paintings

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Paper, Pastel

Dennis Sheehan, "Winter Dusk", 16x20 Snowy Landscape Tonalist Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Winter Dusk", is a 16x20 winter landscape oil painting on canvas by artist Dennis Sheehan. Featured is view over a snow covered marshland during the evening hours. The w...
Category

2010s Tonalist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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