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Impressionist 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
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Impressionist New York Street Scene
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, Dated, number Lower left recto, unframed, 4/15 other size available, unframed Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " C...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Green 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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Manhattan from Long Island City, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed - Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Noble Lion at Sunset
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 Pr...
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1980s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Autumn Colors Bow Bridge with Flower Pots and Ducks in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Central Park captured at it's most beautiful and it's most romantic. Signed dated lower right, numbered on lr recto. 3/15 printed later, unframed. other sizes available. Printed on...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet

Bow Bridge Landscape in Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Bow Bridge is one of the most iconic and photographed features of Central Park. Built in 1862, this Victorian-era bridge spans 60 feet across the Central Park Lake and connects Cherr...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Golden Tree, Nature Photography by Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Bossa Nova Blue Trees The 1st image enlarged, should be most accurate for color. Does Gold grow on Trees? Sometimes! Shot with a Hi-res 36 megapixel camera which yields beautifu...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Paper, 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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Dream Girl
Located in Miami, FL
Done in 1970 during the psychedelic era, Mitchell Funk zooms a sleeping girl in Central Park. There a perfect balance between the zoom of colors emanating from her head and the as...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Classical Roman Bronze Head in Thought
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. ...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet

San Francisco in Gold with
Located in Miami, FL
Luminous late afternoon light baths the city in soft golden energy. I lone Motorcyclist adds a dynamic to this well structured composition. Signed and dated on lower right, number...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

New York City Snow Scene with American Flag
Located in Miami, FL
Photo-impressionist work from a birds-eye view Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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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.
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

Neutral Colors: Smooth n' Easy Lavender Tree
Located in Miami, FL
Neutral Colors - Nature formed by man. Understated natural color defines orderly natural forms and evokes a sense of peace and tranquility. Shot with a Hi-res 36 mega pixel camera ...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Pink Purple Flowers Wispy Impressionist
Located in Miami, FL
It's a cornucopia of cotton candy colors. A blanket of beautiful flowers in pink shot in America's most beautiful city... San Francisco. Signed, numbered, and dated 3/15 lr recto, unframed, printed later. other sizes are available. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Robert Funk is a pioneer of toy photography, doll photography...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Bethesda Fountain in the Snow
Located in Miami, FL
This is a straight shot. The two figures wrapped in colorful garb and corresponding colorful canines were not posed. The subjects are romping around in the snow and are captured in m...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Central Park Bow Bridge with Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered, 3/15 unframed, other size available
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Golden Classical Bronze Head in thought
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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet

East Hampton Landsape , Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signature: Signed, dated lower , numbered right 2 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available.printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color P...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

New York Skyscraper in Golden Burst of Light
Located in Miami, FL
Architecture becomes spiritual. Late afternoon golden light bounces back at the viewer and transforms a building into something more than a building. Signature: Signed and dated on ...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Blurred New York Skyline
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, Dated and Number lower right, 4/15, printed later, Unframed , other sizes available. Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer". He was color when color wasn't consider...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Single Scull East Hampton, Nature Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Single Scull East Hampton, poetic moment of supreme tranquility and harmony of subject and pictorial structure Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso 3/15, Printed Lat...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Cherry blossoms Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Word Trade Center in Blue, New York
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk has been shooting the WTC as it was being built in 1970. Here is his latest artistic interpretation of the famous site, Signature: Signed , dated lower right and numb...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Neon Light, Photographic Paper

New York Skyline from Central Park in Deep Gold and Orange
Located in Miami, FL
Trailblazing Color Photographer Mitchell Funk once again sets the standard for originality and inventiveness. His use of hyper-lighting and composition produces a retina-numbing imag...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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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...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Greenwich village Street Scene with Colorful Walls - Street Photography
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, color photography was still not recognized as fine art. As a street photographer, Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the ...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Conversation: Late Afternoon Impressionist Light in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk breaks with traditional black and white photography and shoots on the street with Kodachrome. His goal: make color photography full of color in what was then a nascent ...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Neighborhood Kids on Stoop in Red Hood Brooklyn - Vintage Brooklyn
Located in Miami, FL
Kids from the Neighborhood in Red Hood Brooklyn are hanging out. This is what Brooklyn was like in the early 1970s. Notice the metal garbage cans. S...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Volleyball in Central Park with Golden Light at the Magic Hour - Impressionist
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers are captured in leisure time with a magical golden rim light that transforms the subjects into shapes. Signed dated and numbered 3/15 lower right recto, other sizes avail...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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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...
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1980s Impressionist Photography

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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 ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Ocean Drive, South Beach, Irene Marie Models Moody Night Neon by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The classic view of Miami Beach's Ocean Drive with reflections is captured by veteran Color Photographer Mithcell Funk. The image overflows with soft bleeding colors that melt into...
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1990s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Golden Tree, Nature Photography by Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
The 1st image enlarged, should be most accurate for color. Does Gold grow on Trees? Sometimes! Shot with a Hi-res 36 megapixel camera which yields beautiful detail. Signed, datin...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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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, ...
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1990s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Bethesda Fountain with Out of Focus Figures
Located in Miami, FL
Bethesda Terrace, Central Park's masterpiece gathering place is joyfully interpreted by master-of-light photographer Mitchell Funk. This archival col...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Pecocks in Green and Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Double portrait of colorful peacocks with shimmering plumage set against a verdant background. Robert Funk is a photographer and New York advertising art director for Print and TV....
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Vintage Rowboat in Central Parks Boat Landing with Pastel Colors
Located in Miami, FL
Stacked blue rowboats reflect their pastel azure color into the golden brown waters of the Lake in Central Park. This image was taken 54 years ago. This style of wooden rowboat...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Manhattan Bridge, Empire State Building
Located in Miami, FL
A golden Empire State Building sits comfortably inside the center arch of the Manhattan bridge as if that space was designed for it. Precise composition combined with magical lat...
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1970s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival 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...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge
Located in Miami, FL
Compositional exactitude and magical gold lighting describe this iconic work of San Franscico This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. . The work is unframed ...
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1990s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival 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 ...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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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...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
This image of Hotel Pierre and Sherry-Netherland from Central Park was shot at magic hour. That's when the light is late in the day and skims over the surfaces of the grass and build...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Girl Looking Out - Landscape of the City - Landscape of Life
Located in Miami, FL
Enter Mitchell Funk's light-filled world. A column of light isolates a girl who looking at something out of frame. The photograph could be a metaphor for self-absorption or ruminati...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Ink, Inkjet, 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...
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1980s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet

Child Cat
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 , other size available, unframed
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

Water Music Series #4996 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Water Music Series #5037 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Water Music Series #5040 : landscape photography
Located in New York, NY
Landscape photography by fine art and documentary photographer Holly Gordon. Holly Gordon is one of the many treasures that Long Island has to offer, co...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Archival Pigment

Big Bubbles and the Bethesda Fountain.
Located in Miami, FL
= Big bubble blowers create alien-looking biomorphic forms that frame the winged neo-classical bronze Bethesda Fountain crowed with pigeons. It's set aga...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet

Manhattan Skyscrapers: Gold and Blue Reflections Photography
Located in Miami, FL
. Manhattan: Gold and Blue Reflections, Shot from Jersey, Manhattan monoliths are transformed into gleaming and beautiful abstract patters of blue and gold. Mitchell Funk, has bee...
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2010s Impressionist Photography

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Photographic Paper

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 ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Photography

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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...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Photography

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Inkjet

Impressionist photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist 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 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 Marc Garrison. 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 photography, so small editions measuring 3.5 inches across are also available. Prices for 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 $50 and tops out at $65,500, while the average work sells for $4,250.

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