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Impressionist Art

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
Artist: Mitchell Funk
Artist: Richard Szkutnik
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...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, 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 ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Public Statues. Young Boy and Old Man in New York City Park
Located in Miami, FL
In the 1970s, senior citizens were fixtures on New York City park benches. In this image, golden light conveys the expressive nature of a disparate relationship between an old man an...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

East Hampton Sunset , Nature Photography by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
East Hampton Sunset , Signature: Signed , Dated lower right and numbered verso 4 /15, Unframed, Other sizes available. printed later, Printed on Hahne...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic 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...
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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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...
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1990s Impressionist Art

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 ...
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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

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...
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1990s Impressionist Art

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 Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic 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 Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

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...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet

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 Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 Art

Materials

Inkjet

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...
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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival 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 Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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 Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, 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 Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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...
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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

View of Russian Hill in Blue, San Francisco
Located in Miami, FL
View of a blue Russian Hill, San Francisco. This image is signed, dated and numbered 2/15 lower right recto. Other sizes are available. The work is unframed and printed later. Print...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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 Art

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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 Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 Art

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...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet, 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...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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 ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

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 Art

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 Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Autumn in Central Park with Black Dog
Located in Miami, FL
Nature's beauty is on full display right smack in the middle of Manhattan but there is more. A single black dog is the central point of focus framed by bea...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

Inkjet

Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore
Located in Miami, FL
Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk strikes a fine balance between abstraction and representation in this optically pleasing color photograph. The sky turns pink magenta as waves cras...
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1970s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Sailboats , Marina District, San Francisco
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 Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Rainbow in East Hampton with a Celebrating Flock of Birds - Magenta Sky
Located in Miami, FL
A stunning magical moment where a flock of birds participates in nature's celebration of beauty. The shape of the flock echos the arch of colors formed in the sky. The photographe...
Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Art

Materials

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 Art

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Photographic Paper

San Francisco Nocturne
Located in Miami, FL
The joy of photography is on full display as Mitchell Funk captures the moody blues and reds of San Francisco's California street . Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on vers...
Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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 Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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 Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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 Art

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Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

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...
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1980s Impressionist Art

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Photographic Paper, Inkjet

Golden Gate Bridge with Vista of San Francisco in Pastel Pinks
Located in Miami, FL
Taken from Bernal Heights, San Francisco, Signed, dated lower and numbered 2-15 lower right recto, unframed, other sizes available, printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art pape...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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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 Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Rockefeller Center Nocturne in Art Deco Moody Blue, Architecture
Located in Miami, FL
Iconic New York City scenes have been creatively documented by the insightful eye of veteran photographer Mitchell Funk for over 50 years. His interpretation of one of Manhattan's ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, 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 Art

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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...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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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 Art

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...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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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...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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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...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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 Art

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
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2010s Impressionist Art

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...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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 Art

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 Art

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.
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Pigment

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...
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1980s Impressionist Art

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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 Art

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Inkjet

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
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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

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 Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

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Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist art 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 art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue and other colors. Many Pop art Paintings/style/impressionist/?creator=richard-szkutnik>paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Vahe Yeremyan, Richard Szkutnik, Iryna Kastsova, and Mitchell Funk. Frequently made by artists working with Oil Paint, and Paint 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 art, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are also available. Prices for art 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 $225 and tops out at $7,200, while the average work sells for $1,423.

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