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
New York Skyline, Hotel Dixie
Located in Miami, FL
In the early in1970's Mitchell Funk was one of the very few photo innovators who used extreme late afternoon golden light. In "Hotel Dixie, 1975, the intense light not only illumin...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
New York is Smoking Photograph
Located in Miami, FL
New York is Smoking
Documentary Travel Photographers / Color Photography / Abstract Photography
Signed , dated lower right and numbered verso 2 /15, Unframed, printed latinerOther ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
Hedge Fun - Miami Beach 3 (Green topiary garden) Street Art By The Rich
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Street Art By The Rich.
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Hedge Fun is a series that celebrates the landscaping commissioned by well-he...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Leafless Tree Monochromatic Winter Snow Scene in Central Park in Warm Greys
Located in Miami, FL
A monochromatic winter snow scene in Central Park with a leafless tress raises questions. How can a city with over 8 million people jammed into a small space yield an expansive, unp...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Light on 1970s Road - Street Photography: Literally
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photography: Literally. At a time when most color photographers were just pointing cameras and snapping images mostly during boring mid-day light, Mitchell Funk was innovatin...
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1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Solitary Runner Central Park Snow Storm, Abstract Photography Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
A vast and wide view of one of the world's most densely populated cities shows only one person. A lone runner surrounded by white snow is framed by New York's Central Park South sky...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Colorful Rainbow with Flock of Birds in East Hampton, Symbolic of Togetherness
Located in Miami, FL
A densely packed flock of birds fly over a beach in East Hampton while a magnificent rainbow serves as a backdrop. The tight formation of the flock of birds symbolizes unity and to...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Acrylic, 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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
East Village Bums, Tramps Smoking and Drinking at Blue Green Wall
Located in Miami, FL
Four East Village down-and-out derelicts and apparent friends sit on a step and engage in a lively chat. They are smoking and drinking. Street Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the...
Category
1960s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Magenta Sky at Dusk , Serene Sky in Blue and Magenta Running Man and Boats
Located in Miami, FL
A lone figure is captured running against a Magenta Sky at Dusk. He is small in the frame, with the vastness of nature as a backdrop. This image was taken in 1972 and exemplifies Pho...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Early Morning Light, Yellows and Gold ( Color Photography )
Located in Miami, FL
For over 50 years pioneering color photographer Mitchell Funk has been documenting the life of New York City. Funk's central preoccupation is recording the beauty of the visual worl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Old New York Bar with Ballantine Beer Neon Sign
Located in Miami, FL
Moody image of a man looking out while the photographer looks in. The picture is organized in a composition of alternating floating faces and floating signs. This work also represen...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
The Fremont Sign, Las Vegas Neon , 1974, Abstract Photography by Mitchell Funk
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 3/15. 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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dogs are Part of the Landscape of Our Lives
Located in Miami, FL
First light skims across the pavement of a Manhattan basketball court. The intense gaze of a dog at attention punctuates a complex interplay of shadows and surface detail of lines ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Golden Gate Bridge at Sunrise , Misty Light in Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Soft misty light pours into the scene evoking a poetic expression of a lyrical landscape. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 Printed later, other size availabl...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Golden Tree, Nature Photography by Robert Funk
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Girl in East Hampton Pond
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100 Girl in East Hampton Pond
Signature: Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 4/15, unframed.
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photog...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
San Francisco Cable Cars Landscape against Bay Bridge, Urban Photography
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. Other sizes are availab...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
French Poodle Central Park - Dog in Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
:ate 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 Printed later, other...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Impressionist Snow Storm - Bethesda Fountain Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy snow blankets Bethesda Fountain and simplifies the landscape so that only a few sick-figure people dot the blue on the blue-white ground. The one figure with a red coat acts ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
San Francisco Cable Car at Sunset - Golden Haze
Located in Miami, FL
The quintessential symbol of San Francisco is small in the picture frame but still is the central focus of the composition. Mitchell Funk's photograph of a Cable Car is as unexpecte...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
New York City Snow Abstract Architecture, Monochromatic
Located in Miami, FL
A New York City snowstorm allows Street Photographer Mitchell Funk to transform facades of Upper Eastside walkups into a stunning impressionist cityscape. Monochromatic grays are pun...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Times Square in the Rain
Located in Miami, FL
signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition of 3/15, Unframed. Other size available
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Snowstorm in Central Park by Mitchell Funk Winter Scene Monochomatic
Located in Miami, FL
A dot of red in a sea of white captured by veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk. The sub-text of this image is that in one of the world's most crowded places a person can be su...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet
Portrait of a San Francisco Cable Car Soaked in Bronze Light
Located in Miami, FL
In an unexpected bronze light, Mitchell Funk captures a classic view of San Francisco with a portrait of a famed cable car. The reflection of light in the car's left window gives the...
Category
1990s Impressionist 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 Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Street Basketball with Angelic Light Burst in Gold
Located in Miami, FL
Light jumps out. Players jump up. Light bounces off a window. Basketball bounces off a backboard. The interplay of extreme light and shadow makes "Street Basketball with Angelic Light " a unique and pioneering photograph. Taking in 1974, it was a rejection of contemporary color photography at the time, which was not concerned with light. This image by Funk is a glorification of light. As light strikes form, it becomes stylized and almost abstract, creating a new relationship between subject and style. An indication of the date this was taken is revealed by the old fashion TV antennas...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Pink Flamingos Socializing with a Colorful Background
Located in Miami, FL
Pink Flamingos are social animals. They gather in large groups and chat it up. Their gregarious natures is a benefit for photographers. Individually the bird is a living sculpture. A...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Peacock Displaying Blue and Green Plumage
Located in Miami, FL
The male peacock is a living work of art. Mitchell Funk has captured a moment of full display with iridescent coloration. Arguably, the male peacock ...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Hedge Fun - Naples, Florida - Happy Colors Landscaping, Abstract Photography
By Robert Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Landscaping in Naples, Florida gives the residents and visitors a visual treat. The community has transformed a typical banal Florida city into an outdoor art exhibition of by Land...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival 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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park Snow Storm, By Mitchell Funk, Landscape Photography, Impressionism
Located in Miami, FL
Snow comes to Manhattans' Central Park and veteran street photographer Mitchell Funk captures it. Besides the understated muted beauty of the image, it's a document of emptiness in ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Two Dog Friends in Golden Light - French Poodle
Located in Miami, FL
Golden Light defines two dogs as they have a head-to-head in a Manhattan park. Color Photographer Mitchell Funk captures the scene with a spontaneity and freshness from a rooftop van...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Brooklyn Heights Promenade in Golden Light - Magical Light - Edward Hopper
Located in Miami, FL
This early work by street photographer Mithcell Funk, shows a lone woman gazing out from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade. The whole image in ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
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
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
View of Russian Hill, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, Edition 3 of 15, Unframed Other sizes available , printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pione...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sun Reflector with old men in the park. Vintage New York Street Scene
Located in Miami, FL
The glorification of light was an early theme Mitchell Funk employed in his street photography. Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, 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 ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco - Blue Water , Blue Sky
Located in Miami, FL
White sailboats form a beautiful pattern in San Fransico Bay. The shapes of Sailboats in San Francisco dot the bay and are echoed by Cumulus clouds
Signed and dated on the lower r...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
South Beach, Miami Beach
Located in Miami, FL
South Beach, Miami Beach is captured at the precise moment where the color in the sky is echoed by the color in the streetscape Signature: Signed , dated l...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, 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 Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, 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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Golden Tree, Nature Photography by Robert Funk
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist 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 Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade with Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. A unique view of The Brooklyn Heights Promenade is shot with magical golden late afternoon light shot in 197...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet
East Hampton Louse Point at Sunset with Warm Colors, Landscape Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The stunning natural beauty of East Hampton's Louse Point is artistically recorded by photographer Mitchell Funk in a chorus of golden browns and warm ochers.
The picture is ar...
Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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 Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Jazz Trumpet Player by Mitchell Funk, Soulful Rainbow of Color Magenta Blue
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated and numbered lower right recto Edition 2/15 Unframed. Printed later. Other sizes are available. This work is printed on fine art Hahnemuhle paper. The color will vary ...
Category
1980s Impressionist 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 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 ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Big Bubbles and the Bethesda Fountain.
Located in Miami, FL
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Big bubble blowers create alien-looking biomorphic forms that frame the winged neo-classical bronze Bethesda Fountain crowed with pigeons.
It's set aga...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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.