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
Classical Roman 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. ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, 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
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...
Category
1980s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Photographic Paper
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...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
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 Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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
East Hampton Beach - Glistening Light and Cumulus Clouds
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered , 2/15 Printed later, other size available, unframed. printed later Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Co...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 Photography
Materials
Inkjet, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist 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 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
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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet
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
Sledding in Central Park Snow
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist 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.
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Category
1990s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Walking the Dog in Central Park
Located in Miami, FL
Golden late light rushes in central park with illuminate a man and his dog with a glowing ring of light. This was done in 1973 and due to new sky scrapper construction this angle i...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Oil
Covid-19, Cherry Blossom Park Avenue. No Cars but One Lone Figure and Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Shipping should be around $100. There is beauty in disaster. Underlying a seemingly picturesque springtime New York scene lurks the question - " Where's the Traffic and People." Yet...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Pink Purple Flowers Wispy Impressionist
By Robert Funk
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet, Archival Ink, 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
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 Photography
Materials
Inkjet
Central Park Bow Bridge with Golden Light
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered, 3/15 unframed, other size available
Category
2010s Impressionist 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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 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 ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, 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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Statue of Liberty and Ferry in Morning Mist
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, unframed. Other sizes available, printed later, other sizes available
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Central Park in Negative Color
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk is a very early pioneer of color photography. In this striking image, he is using negative color to give an simultaneous beautiful yet eerie effect . Remarkably, Centra...
Category
Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
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
Category
2010s Impressionist 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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dogs in Snow, Monochromatic Colors, Abstract Photography by Michell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/15 other size available, unframed, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment
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 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
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 Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper
Central Park in the Snow
Located in Miami, FL
Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso Edition 3 of 15. Unframed. Other size available,
Category
20th Century Impressionist Photography
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist 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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Impressionist Street Scene Manhattan in Snow - Reds and Greys
Located in Miami, FL
Color Photography pioneer Mitchell Funk is famous for blending representation with a broad emphasis on abstract qualities. He is a photographic minimalist cropping out extraneous details. His work focuses on color relationships and interactions between shapes. Funk started shooting in 1969, and today he's still as active as ever and continues to innovate. In "Impressionist Street Scene...
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
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 ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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 ...
Category
1970s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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
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
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 Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Dog Park in Magenta - Dogs and People having Fun
Located in Miami, FL
New Yorkers walk their dogs in an upper east side park. The scene is shot at dawn. First light skims across the ground and gives the whole picture a mesmerizing quality in pinks and...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Central Park South bursts in Autumn Colors Yellows and Soft Gentle Browns
Located in Miami, FL
Central Park shows us its true colors and they are spectacular. Vermont you have competition. This archival color photograph by fine art photographer Mitchell Funk is signed, dated ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
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
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
Pecocks in Green and Blue
By Robert Funk
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....
Category
2010s Impressionist Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
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.