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Art Subject: Countryside
Vermont Covered Bridge, Painting, Oil on Wood Panel
Located in Yardley, PA
Charming scene of a Vermont covered bridge near Stowe, Vt. The artist recently completed a series of paintings done while touring the New England States. The gallery boxed and cra...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sonoma Mountain, " Fred R. Parker, California Landscape, Olive Tree Farm
Located in New York, NY
Fred Parker
Sonoma Mountain, 1996
Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse
Acrylic, pastel, and pencil on board
21 1/2 x 29 1/2 inches
Category
1990s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Board, Pencil
Thrashing Machine
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by John Christopher Smith. "Thrashing Machine" is a modern painting, oil on board in browns and blues by John Christopher Smith. The artwo...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
From Sutton Bank, Original painting, landscape art, affordable art, fields
Located in Deddington, GB
From Sutton Bank [2022]
original
oil on canvas
Image size: H:65 cm x W:90 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:65 cm x W:90 cm x D:2cm
Sold Unframed
Please note that insitu images a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lower Barn, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This is an old barn that stand out in the "lower field" way out back. For many years it was used to store random items and hay. But many years ago it housed cows. This was done wi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Blacksmiths. Oil Painting by Edwin Roper Stocqueler (Australian -1829 -1895)
Located in Brecon, Powys
Edwin Roper Stocqueler (Australian - 1829 - 1895), oil on canvas, horses awaiting the blacksmith's in the snow, signed, 72cm x 119cm, framed
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Canvas has been lined, g...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch School Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Winter Sunlight"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956).
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only membe...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ranch Pasture with Horses" Spring Landscape
By Jim Rodgers
Located in Austin, TX
This peaceful piece depicts a ranch with a green pasture, barns, and a grazing horse. Dark clouds and a pink glow on the horizon suggest the sun has just set.
By Jim Rodgers
20" x 3...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Winter Landscape Painting "Abandoned" by Walter Sacks (American, 1901-1961)
Located in Rochester, NY
Peaceful winter landscape painting by Walter Sacks. Oil on canvas. In high quality original frame. Signed lower left. Circa 1940's. Please, contact Joseph Dasta Antiques for shippin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Oil
Contemporary landscape oil painting cows pastoral mountain field grassland sky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sheridan Herd" is an original oil painting on masonite by Heather Foster. The artist initialed the work in the lower right. This painting depicts a herd of cows in a yellow hilly me...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Clifford Holmes Country Homestead with Tall Pines and Wildflowers c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
Clifford Holmes 1876-1963
Country Homestead with Tall Pines and Wildflowers c.1950
Original oil on canvas
Dimensions 30" wide x 24" high
Signed in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Ploughman - Austrian Realist Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Josef Hallberg (Austrian, Born in 1912- )
Title: The Ploughman
Medium: Oil on Panel
Dimensions: Framed 14” x 12”, Unframed 9” x 7”
Description
An oil painting of an Aust...
Category
1940s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
1950s Soquel California Barns Landscape, Vintage Oil Painting, Blue Green Red
Located in Denver, CO
Charming mid-century oil painting by noted California artist Jon Blanchette (1908–1987), titled "Barns in Soquel." This original, signed work is painted on canvas board and captures ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barn in winter
Located in Westmount, QC
Franklin Arbuckle, Canadian, 1909 - 2001
BARN IN WINTER, 1981
Oil on canvas, mounted to board
12 x 16 in
30.5 x 40.6 cm
INSCRIPTIONS
signed lower left;
also signed, titled and dated 1981 on the revers Roberts Gallery, Toronto label verso
PROVENANCE
Roberts Gallery, Toronto
framed
Franklin Arbuckle Biography
(1909 - 2001) RCA
Arbuckle studied at the Ontario College of Art under J.W. Beatty and J.E.H. MacDonald. He attended summer classes at Franz Johnston's Georgian Bay art...
Category
1980s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rural life. 1970s, cardboard, oil, 23.5x36.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Rural life. 1970s, cardboard, oil, 23.5x36.5 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National University at studies to R.Suta, J. Bine an...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Last Light, 2022, Oil on aluminum panel, surrealist pastoral oil painting
Located in New York, NY
Both spare and dynamic, Karl Hartman’s hyper-saturated countrysides and surreal depictions of Americana perfectly match the vividness of our late-summer heatwave. Hartman’s tightly c...
Category
2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
The Stroud valley BY ELEANOR WOOLLEY, Abstract Landscape Painting for Sale
Located in Deddington, GB
Stroud valley is an original painting by Eleanor Woolley.
Painted Al fresco the scene shows the river Severn disappearing in the distance, and the grassy green fields on a sunny sum...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Board
Georgie Dowling, Patchwork Fields in the Summer, Original landscape painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Patchwork fields in the summer by Georgie Dowling [2021]
original
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:40 cm x W:80 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:80 cm x D:2cm
Sold...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“spring at the foot of the Alps” Original impressionistic landscape .
Located in Oslo, NO
This vibrant artwork captures an idyllic springtime landscape. Dominating the foreground, blossoming trees burst with white and pale pink flowers, signaling renewal and growth. Benea...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In village courtyard. 1976, cardboard, oil, 43x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
In village courtyard. 1976, cardboard, oil, 43x65 cm
Alfejs Bromults (1913.3.IV - 1991.11.I)
His first professional education was at National Univers...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
"On a Bright Winter Day" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Ulrich Gleiter's (EUR based) "On a Bright Winter Day" is an oil painting that depicts a small wooden structure surrounded with tall trees all coated with a heavy blanket of snow.
B...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
North Wind - Landscape Painting Canvas Oil Paint Colors Grey White
Located in Sofia, BG
"North wind" is an impressionist painting, oil on canvas by Maestro Zlata Shyshman.
About the artwork:
TECHNIQUE: oil painting
STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary
Edition : Unique,...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach Hut – Pink BY JANETTE GEORGE, Seaside Art for Sale, Affordable OriginalArt
Located in Deddington, GB
Janette George primarily paints landscapes and seascapes. She finds she is drawn to expressing places she has visited where light and colour interact to provide beauty – wide expansi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Sun
Located in Sofia, BG
"Spring Sun" is an impressionist painting, oil on cardboard by Maestro Zlata Shyshman.
The painting is unframed.
“The impressions of Maestro Shyshman's paintings on the viewer is s...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Dahl Taylor, "Stable Walk", 22x30 Equine Horse Racing Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Stable Walk", is a 22x30 oil painting on canvas by artist Dahl Taylor featuring a two brown horses being led back to the stable after morning workouts at Saratoga Race Course. Brigh...
Category
2010s Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
House in the Mountains of Upstate New York
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Little House in the Upstate New York Mountains" by C.H. Schmidt is a captivating painting that evokes a sense of rustic charm. Set against the backdrop of the majestic mountains of ...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Barbizon School Landscape, The Thatched Cottage and the Chickens.
Located in Cotignac, FR
1930s French Impressionist Barbizon School oil on panel view of chickens in front of a cottage by Georges Guerin. The painting is signed bottom right.
A charming scene of an idyllic...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Rural Scene at Sunset oil on canvas painting spanish landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: Ramón de Capmany (1899-1992)
Title: "Rural Scene at Sunset"
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 18 x 24 inches
Framing: Unframed
Period: 1960s
Style: Costumbrismo with Impre...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horse stable. Horizontal, nature, mountains, landscape, Switzerland
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting "Horse Stable" (60x80 cm), done in oil on canvas, is a large study, painted from life in a decorative manner. The peculiarity of the work lies in its clear and transluce...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gloucester Vista
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: H. GASSER; on verso: “Gloucester Vista” / HENRY GASSER / N.A.
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Spring Drive
Located in Columbia, MO
The central Missouri, river-view studio of painter Gloria Gaus offers her contemplative solitude and direct access to the Midwestern landscapes featured throughout her body of work. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dull Day Illuminated by Spring by Ewa Adams - contemporary meadow landscape
By Ewa Adams
Located in London, GB
framed size: 95 x 95cm
Ewa Adams is a landscape painter. Her painting is a contemporary take on Pointillism. She builds her images out of circles of pure colour juxtaposted next to ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
English Farmhouse - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Board
'Kauai Large Panoramic Landscape & Ocean Painting Oil on Canvas
By Uri Blayer
Located in Carmel, CA
Israeli born artist that works mainly in Hawaii, whose realistic and whimsical landscapes has earned him a vast reputation.
Blayer's work was critiqued in the New York Times (see b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Les Oliviers de L'Ouka", Mountain Landscape Village Painting
Located in New Orleans, LA
A nice customer who reads a bit of Arabic filled me in that the full name of the artist is Afif Benanni. The title of the painting refers to "the olive farmers of l"Ouka," yet I can'...
Category
1990s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Sanctuary" Impressionist Realism Landscape Oil on Linen
By Uri Blayer
Located in Carmel, CA
"Sanctuary," a 16" x 28" oil on linen creation by Israeli artist Uri Blayer, is a serene portrayal of rustic tranquility set against a lush mountainous backdrop. In this piece, Blayer employs a palette dominated by earthy greens, rich browns, and soft greys, evoking the natural harmony of the rural landscape. The painting’s composition leads the viewer’s gaze across a verdant field to the quaint cottage, a splash of blue on its roof adding a gentle contrast to the surrounding neutral tones. The artwork radiates a calming, almost nostalgic emotion, reminiscent of a quiet life, undisturbed by the bustle of modernity. Blayer’s brushwork combines precision with a gentle looseness that gives "The Little Cottage" a dreamlike quality, inviting one to step into its peaceful world.
About the Artist:
Uri Blayer is an alumnus of the Telma-Yalin Art School in Israel and furthered his artistic education at Brooklyn College and the Art Students League in New York City. His creative expressions have been displayed in numerous distinguished group shows across the United States and Israel. His pieces are a staple in various private collections, as well as corporate and public entities. In Hawaii, his work graces the walls of the Bank of Hawaii, is featured at the Hawaii State Museum, and is part of the collection of the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. His artistic prowess has been acknowledged with multiple accolades, including a recent grant from the prestigious Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation. For three consecutive years, he has been a selected exhibitor at the Honolulu Academy of Arts Showcase, a testament to his standing among Hawaii's top 100 artists. Notably, Uri's art has garnered critical acclaim in esteemed publications such as The New York Times, The New York Sun, and The Jerusalem Post.
Original, 1-of-1.
Represented by the American Art Gallery, Carmel-by-the-Sea, California.
Keywords: impressionist, realism...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
‘Afternoon In Kauai' Large Panoramic Landscape Oil On Canvas
By Uri Blayer
Located in Carmel, CA
Israeli born artist that works mainly in Hawaii, whose realistic and whimsical landscapes has earned him a vast reputation.
Blayer's work was critiqued in the New York Times (see b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Farm Lane by Bethanne Cople, Oil on birch panel painting landscape
Located in Atlanta, GA
The American landscape – endless skies, calming waters and the varied shores of the East and West coasts - are Cople’s passion and she travels far and wide to capture her subjects. “I love painting the landscape en plein air. In the outdoors, exposed to the sun, wind and rain, you can incorporate not only what you see, but also the sounds and the smells of the landscape. All of this lets me convey the sense of wonder I feel at the subject,” says Cople. Undeterred by nature’s extremes, Cople has painted in blizzards in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah; on the precarious cliffs of Monhegan Island, Maine; in howling gales off the California coast; and, of course, in both summer and winter in her beloved Eastern Shore of Maryland and Potomac River...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"ESTUDIO DE LA OTRA ORILLA IV". Contemporary, realism, figurative, landscape
Located in MADRID, ES
Contemporary, realism, figurative, oil, landscapa, waterscape, pastel colors, earth colors
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
German Contemporary Art by Frank Suplie - Großes Rapsbild, Ratzeburger See
Located in Paris, IDF
Egg tempera on canvas, Molding frame
Frank Suplie is a German artist born in 1950 lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He is a member of the Painters Association of the North German ...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Egg Tempera
Georgian Contemporary Art by Tinatin Chkhikvishvili - House Near the Forest
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Tinatin Chkhikvishvili is a Georgian artist born in 1980 who lives and works in Tbilisi, Georgia. She was graduated in 2002 from the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi. ...
Category
2010s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fish Camp, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I really like this extra wide canvas. I've had it awhile but not sure what to do with it. Perfect for a fish camp. Its gallery-wrapped so it doesn't need a frame. The image is inspir...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
19th Century landscape oil painting of ducks in a harvest field
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Arthur Walker Redgate
British, (1860-1906)
Lunchtime
Oil on canvas, signed
Image size: 19.5 inches x 29.5 inches
Size including frame: 27.25 inches x 37.25 inches
A charming harves...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The moon has risen. Chamzinka
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
This condition is very fleeting. It is almost dusk, and paint mixtures are not visible on the palette. In many ways, you write more from experience and knowledge than from a whim, so...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Landscape of Farm on Rolling Hills
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"Farm on Rolling Hills" by August Herman Olson Rolle captures the essence of a rural pasture through a harmonious blend of natural and pastoral elements. Rolle, an American painter k...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Village, Landscape Artwork, Original oil Painting, Framed Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2025
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Village
Size: 12" x 15" x 0.8''...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paysage de Neige
Located in London, GB
Image dimensions: 48cm x 59cm
Framed dimensions: 65.7cm x 79.5cm
Signed lower left.
A master of bold colours and strong form, Maurice Martin was a key...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Robert Amirault, "Springtime", Rural Barn Green Yellow Tree Landscape
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Robert Amirault's "Springtime" 36x36 oil painting on canvas of a colorful rural landscape in spring. Depicting rolling hills meeting the forests edge ...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Vines in Noce" 2020 oil painting, vineyard landscape Tuscany, Italy framed
By Amy Florence
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by Amy Florence. Rows of vines painted en plein air, in Tuscany during the offseason. Traditional Italian aesthetics, a stone house can be found in the distance, just...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Óleo sobre tela - Paisaje
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior
Estado de conservación bueno
La obra se presenta sin enmarcar
Medidas obra: 73 cm altura x 92 cm ancho.
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Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
House in July
By Leonard Wren
Located in Austin, TX
This contemporary impressionist landscape painting by Leonard Wren depicts a house on a warm summer day.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cotswolds Landscape - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil by William Henry Innes
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Henry Innes (1905-1999)
Innes first exhibited his work during the Second World War while he was in the Royal Air Force. He showed extensively at the Royal Academy, New Engla...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
Landscape by Vérène Mettler - Oil on canvas 46x80 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas sold with original frame
Total size with frame 66x100 cm
Vérène Mettler is a Swiss artist known for her intricate and evocative works, often exploring themes of natu...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Roses Among the Vines" a Pastoral Vineyard and Rose Painting by Joe Mancuso
By Joe Mancuso
Located in Morgan Hill, CA
"Roses Among the Vines" is a pastel painting by Torrance, CA based artist, Joe Mancuso. This painting was created during Colibri Gallery's 2nd Annual Plein Air Paint Out and won third place! Featuring the lush green vines of local winery Clos LaChance, Mancuso masterfully captures the light of the sun coming through fog on a Sunday October morning. Magnificent white roses gleam in the sunlight along with the chartreuse leaves surrounding the flowers.
Framed: 16.75" x 19.63"
Unframed: 11" x 14"
Framing includes a black matte boarder with an ornate gold fillet with museum glass, all included in the price.
About the Artist:
Joe Mancuso is a plein air pastellist based in Torrance, CA. Mancuso is well known for the light in his paintings. His paintings are deeply influenced by the environment, especially seasonal changes and climactic weather. Mancuso creates his breathtaking paintings on location and though he may respond to a certain place or scene, his goal is to always make capturing the light his focal point.
Joe participated in Colibri Gallery’s 2nd Annual Morgan Hill Plein Air Paint Out, where he won third place for his painting, Roses Among the Vines. In 2021, Mancuso achieved Master Circle Status with The International Association of Pastel Societies and is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America. Mancuso holds membership with The California Art Club, Laguna Beach Plein Air...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Board
Brown Barn
Located in Napa, CA
Michelle Andres is a contemporary American oil painter, writer and poet who draws from nature to celebrate joy and hopefulness in our often challenging world. She has worked in abstr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Autumn 4946
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mid 20th Century French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Stone Cottage Provence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Stone Cottage, Provence
French Impressionist, mid 20th century
signed
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 9.5 x 13 inches
condition: very good
provenance: private collection, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Lobstermen in Gloucester, Mass." Lionel Reiss WPA Social Realism Fishermen
By Lionel S. Reiss
Located in New York, NY
Lionel S. Reiss (1894 - 1988)
Lobstermen in Gloucester, Massachusetts, circa 1943
Watercolor on paper
Sight 17 1/2 x 23 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
In describing his own style, Lionel Reiss wrote, “By nature, inclination, and training, I have long since recognized the fact that...I belong to the category of those who can only gladly affirm the reality of the world I live in.” Reiss’s subject matter was wide-ranging, including gritty New York scenes, landscapes of bucolic Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and seascapes around Gloucester, Massachusetts. However, it was as a painter of Jewish life—both in Israel and in Europe before World War II—that Reiss excelled. I.B. Singer, the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, noted that Reiss was “essentially an artist of the nineteenth century, and because of this he had the power and the courage to tell visually the story of a people.”
Although Reiss was born in Jaroslaw, Poland, his family immigrated to the United States in 1898 when he was four years old. Reiss's family settled on New York City’s Lower East Side and he lived in the city for most of his life. Reiss attended the Art Students League and then worked as a commercial artist for newspapers and publishers. As art director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he supposedly created the studio’s famous lion logo.
After World War I, Reiss became fascinated with Jewish life in the ‘Old World.’ In 1921 he left his advertising work and spent the next ten years traveling in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. Like noted Jewish photographers Alter Kacyzne and Roman Vishniac, Reiss depicted Jewish life in Poland prior to World War II. He later wrote, “My trip encompassed three main objectives: to make ethnic studies of Jewish types wherever I traveled; to paint and draw Jewish life, as I saw it and felt it, in all aspects; and to round out my work in Israel.”
In Europe, Reiss recorded quotidian scenes in a variety of media and different settings such as Paris, Amsterdam, the Venice ghetto, the Jewish cemetery in Prague, and an array of shops, synagogues, streets, and marketplaces in the Jewish quarters of Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, Lublin, Vilna, Ternopil, and Kovno. He paid great attention to details of dress, hair, and facial features, and his work became noted for its descriptive quality.
A selection of Reiss’s portraits appeared in 1938 in his book My Models Were Jews. In this book, published on the eve of the Holocaust, Reiss argued that there was “no such thing as a ‘Jewish race’.” Instead, he claimed that the Jewish people were a cultural group with a great deal of diversity within and between Jewish communities around the world. Franz Boas...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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