Impressionist Color Photography
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
Sunbathers Miami Beach
Located in Miami, FL
People are reduced to patters when rows of sun worshipers are caught with a 105 mm lens.
Signed and dated lower right Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Manarola
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
From Italy's Cinque Terre this semi-abstract, semi-cubist photo of terraces upon terrazios!
Words that describe this piece: abstract, cubist, Italy
Artist Biogr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Crepuscular Coast
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Follow the joy of nature and the coast line for a serene experience of spiritual bliss and the truth of your destiny!
Words that describe this piece: Rays, light...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Save the Last Dance for Me
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
An intimate and close-up view of Papavers and Mallows positioned on a light box.
Words that describe this piece: Poppies, Mallows, Flowers
Artist Biography:
Ha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bus Window 4
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Using ICM (In-Camera Motion) and a long-duration shutter speed, I created this collection of impressionistic landscapes through a moving bus window while visiting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Panorama of the Kumano Sanzen Roppyaku Po
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Along the Kumano kodo pilgrimage trail in the Kii Mountains of Japan I walked in the rain, climbing among gnarled roots and trees that seemed they had been there ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bus Window 5
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Using ICM (In-Camera Motion) and a long-duration shutter speed, I created this collection of impressionistic landscapes through a moving bus window while visiting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Purple Haze
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
From the crest of the Sierra Nevada looking towards the great Central Valley of California!
Words that describe this piece: Mountains, sunset, purple
Artist Bio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Rollback
By Harold Davis
Located in Boston, MA
Artist Commentary:
Rollback is a piece that expresses positivist in nature, along with the possibility that there are two ways to look at any picture.
Words that describe this piec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Times Square, neon series
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Multidisciplinary artist. Twenty years of artistic experience in the Fine Arts. Eight years of practice as a University professor of Fine Arts. Broad knowledge of design software: Ad...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Neon Light, Photographic Paper
Manhattanhenge with Chrysler Building at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
The sun sets at Manhattanhenge with the Chrysler Building's crown illuminated, creating a dual lighting source. Enter Mitchell Funks light-filled world in which his photographic ima...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Big Sun Over New York City Bridge - The Transience of Time.
Located in Miami, FL
This dramatic image of an oversized sun with a silhouetted plane gracefully passing through conveys the transience of time. Two spires of the Triborough Bridge are centered in the co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Statue of Liberty New York Harbor at Sunset with Green Light
Located in Miami, FL
A vibrant orange sunset silhouettes the iconic Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. In the foreground, a partly out-of-focus green street light occupies the top half of the composi...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Aspen Colorado Golden Landscape Luminous Lines of Light and Bicycle
Located in Miami, FL
Golden rays transform power lines into luminous lines of light that stretch across the Aspen landscape. A solitary biker punctuates the scene. Over his 55-year photography career, M...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship - Impressionist Misty Blue
Located in Miami, FL
One of the defining characteristics of Mitchell Funk's work is how he shoots with light. In "Foggy San Francisco Skyline with Ship," Funk takes light into a new realm and in doing so...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Children's Playground Central Park in Impressionist Blue and Magenta.
Located in Miami, FL
This image was shot in Central Park. Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the intoxicatingly beautiful optical effect of natural light as it skims off of wooden swings...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Green Dog Yellow Dog, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Green Dog is photographed so that it is representational and abstract at the same time. The photograph is signed dated, numbered, 3/15 lower right, another...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
1980s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Magical New York in Autumn Colors with Golden Light on Glowing Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Color Photographer Mithcell Funk captures a magical moment when light strikes the Throgs Neck Bridge in New York City. Muted autumn colors interact in a syncopated rhythm producing ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Boat House in Golden Light Impressionist Reflections
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing photographer Mitchell Funk explores the possibilities of abstraction in a documentary photograph. Golden light reflects off the water creating an impressionist like ab...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park at Dawn First Light in Blue and Yellow Mist, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The movie light illuminates a path in Central Park on a foggy morning. The circular light appears behind a light pole and appears as if it would be the su...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Yellow Golden Light, Color Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Late golden light transforms a dog into a graphic black shape that seems to float in magical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 3/15 and printed later, ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available,
Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian
Mitchell ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
2014, Signed dated and numbered 4/15, right recto, inkjet archival print lower
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and
other sizes are available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Landscape of Umbrellas in the Rain - Moody New York Afternoon
Located in Miami, FL
A moody New York street is dotted umbrellas that yield a pattern of bright colors set against a desaturated ground.
Signed dated and numbered 1/15 lower right recto, other sizes ava...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Fremont Street Neon. Old Las Vegas, 1974
Located in Miami, FL
This photograph is of old Last Vegas - The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas, 1974
The work is signed, dated number lower right 4/15. It's printed later, unframed and
other sizes are available.
Before one of America's most iconic streets was desecrated into a mall, Fremont street was a wonderland of classic casino signs...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk Soulful Rainbow of Color
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography". In 1970 he participat...
Category
1980s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Surfer, East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset and Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
East Hampton Beach with Dramatic Sunset with silhouetted male surfer by Mitchell Funk is a quintessential moment at days end. The work is signed and dated ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Two Umbrellas in New York Snowstorm
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow creates a shadowless scene that allows blue and red umbrellas to pop out from a subdued background. Funk captures a magic moment of perfect spatial and color harmony.
Si...
Category
1990s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Autumn in Central Park with Black Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.
Nature's beauty is on full display right smack in the middle of Manhattan but there is more.
A single black dog is the cent...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Trumpet Player: Soulful Rainbow of Color
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography". In 1970 he participat...
Category
1980s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Tree Candy - Simpson Park Brickell Miami
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Trees taste good.
The first image enlarged is most accurate for color.
Signed, dating and numbered 4/15 recto, unframed, other sizes available. printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Noble Lion at Sunset
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, un...
Category
1980s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
Impressionist Magenta Trees Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
This is a groundbreaking early example of negative color manipulated with color filters. Executed on 35mm film emulsion. It's a poetic and lyrical evocation of a fairytale landscape...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Golden Classical Bronze Head in thought
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Roman bronze figure after the antique is capture in an introspective moment. Highlights on the eyelids accent the dreamy quality of the gaze. Signed, dated and numbered lower rig...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Palace Of Fine Arts Marina District of San Francisco with Runner Pastel Colors
Located in Miami, FL
Early morning light evokes a soft pastel San Francisco landscape. Signed, Dated, number Lower left 3/15 recto, unframed, other size available.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Sabrett Hot Dog Vendors, Times Square, Golden Light, Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, Dated, Numbers 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes available and unframe, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Noble Lion Silhouetted at Sunset, Animal Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Noble lion caught in quintessential and heroic pose against primal sunset sunet. Signed, dated and numbered lower right recto. 4/15 Printed later, unframed, other sizes available . P...
Category
1980s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
New York City Skyline with Gold light
Located in Miami, FL
New York City Skyline with Gold light . Signature: Signed , dated lower right and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, printed later, Other sizes available. PRi...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
White Ducks in Prism of Color, Fine Art Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
White Ducks in Prism of Color is an early work where a creative color effect is used to express the evocative nature of a picturesque nature scene
Signed and dated on lower right, ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Dog Walkers
Located in Miami, FL
Magical late afternoon golden light pours into the scene illuminating heads and Silhouetting figures. The intriguing arrangement of visual elements creates an unorthodox mysterious w...
Category
1990s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Two Umbrellas in New York Snowstorm
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow creates a shadowless scene which allows blue and red umbrellas to pop out from a subdued background. Funk captures a magic moment of perfect spacial and color harmony.
...
Category
1990s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Bow Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, other sizes available Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sutton Place Manhattan with 59th Street Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, other sizes available
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Mail Boxes in the Snow , Long Island
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 2 of 15, Unframed , Other sizes available
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Fifth Avenue in a blizzard
Located in Miami, FL
City traffic never seemed so beautiful. l2/15 Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available
Category
Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Colorful Boats, East Hampton
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, 3/15 numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, Hahnemuhle Baryta Fne Art Paper.
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
Flower Hat in Yellows, Blues and Pinks
Located in Miami, FL
Woman as a flower.
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso ,3/15 unframed. Other sizes available,
Mitchell Funk is an abstractionist while being a documentarian
Mitchell ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Purple San Francisco Victorian
Located in Miami, FL
The Color Purple by man and by nature. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 1/15, other size available, unframed
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
East Hampton Swimming Pool in the Rain
Located in Miami, FL
Soft pinks and blues beckon in the rain
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15, other size available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York Skyline in Yellow and blue
Located in Miami, FL
Late afternoon light baths the downtown skyline in a impressionist palette of soft light blues and pale yellows. The camera angle, lighting and long lens which compresses spaces tra...
Category
2010s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Tribeca in Gold, Street Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Edward Hopper's sense of late light combined with the isolation and desolation of New York is depicted in color photography by Mitchell Funk. Golden light paints 70's New York in a m...
Category
1970s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dogs in Snow Storm, Madison Square, New York City
Located in Miami, FL
A palette of soft greys and magentas serves as the perfect environment to render fun loving New Yorkers and their dogs semi silhouetted abstract shapes.
Category
1990s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Runner Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
New York City is in bloom as a runner's bright red parker adds punctuation to an impressionist scene of soft pastels and lavenders and blue greys.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Chrysler Building Crown with Gold Light - Mitchell Funk, urban photography
Located in Miami, FL
Precise composition with magical late late is a hallmark of Mithcell Funk's work
This image is signed, dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Cable Cars against Bay Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico
Signed , dated lower right, Edition 2 /15 Printed later, unframed, other size available...
Category
1990s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Film
Magical light on road. Litchfield, Connecticut
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100.
As if it were illuminated from an unearthly source, a Ford Falcon glows as it cruises down a country road. Mitchell Funk pioneered the use of late, dr...
Category
1960s Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Watching The Sunset
By Ivan Butorac
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A delightful new work by the artist
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Price Upon Request
Impressionist color photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist color photography 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 color photography 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, orange, pink and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Mitchell Funk, Harold Davis, Robert Funk, and Allan Forsyth. Frequently made by artists working with Paper, and Photographic Paper 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 color photography, so small editions measuring 16 inches across are also available. Prices for color photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $399 and tops out at $10,500, while the average work sells for $4,500.
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