California Desert
Located in Basalt, CO
Glenn Dean, "Pacific Coast" Painted in 2006. It is very unusual to see a work by Glenn Dean of this large size. 64" x 60", 71" x 67" framed.
Canvas, Oil
Anza-Borrego Desert California Modernist Large Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape signed oil painting of the Anza-Borrego desert. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 36 by 44 inches overall. In excellent original condit...
Canvas, Oil
$460Sale Price|20% Off
California School - Desert Ranch Road Landscape Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
California School - Ranch Road Landscape Oil on Canvas Imapsto oil painting of the California landscape by an unknown California artist working in the style of Sam Hyde Harris, anna...
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
"California Mountains, " Orrin White, Impressionism, Southwest Desert Landscape
By Orrin A. White
Located in New York, NY
Orrin White California Mountain Landscape Signed lower right Oil on board 8 x 10 inches A nationally known landscape painter, who spent the prime of his career in California, Orrin ...
Oil, Board
Post War Impasto Southern California High Desert and San Gabriel Mountains
Located in Soquel, CA
Post War impasto painting of high desert of Southern California, looking toward the San Gabriel Mountain Range .
Oil, Illustration Board
Desert at Death Valley, California, 178 Feet Below Sea Level
By Xavier Barile
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Desert at Death Valley, California, 178 Feet Below Sea Level" 1941, is an oil painting on canvas board by Italian/American artist Xavier Barile, 1891-1981.
Oil
$4,800Sale Price|20% Off
High time the California Desert Wall Art Oil on Canvas Decorative object framed
Located in West Hollywood, CA
High time the California Desert Wall Art Oil on Canvas Decorative object framed .
Canvas, Wood
Vintage Southern California Oil Painting Landscape -- Smoke Trees by Salton Sea
Located in Soquel, CA
Vintage Southern California Salton Sea Desert Road Oil Painting Vintage landscape of the Anza-Borrego desert and the waters of the Salton Sea framed by rolling arid hills and sun-bl...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
'Desert II', Palm Springs, California Woman Artist, Large Proto-Organic Abstract
By Charmaine Girelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charmaine Girelli' (American, 20th/21st century) and painted circa 2015. A very large, American School proto-organic abstract comprising dynamic and fluid trail...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
'Desert II', Palm Springs, California Woman Artist, Large Proto-Organic Abstract
By Charmaine Girelli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Charmaine Girelli' (American, 20th/21st century) and painted circa 2015. A very large, American School proto-organic abstract comprising dynamic and fluid traili...
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$1,093Sale Price|20% Off
Bill Hager, "Desert, Landscape near Palm Springs, Smock Trees, Tumble Weed"
By Bill Hager
Located in Genève, GE
A beautiful oil painting on cardboard by Bill Hager, depicting a sunlit desert landscape near Palm Springs, California.
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
California Desert Scene 1957 Oil
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1957 oil on canvas depicting a California desert is by California Regionalist painter Freeman Sragent (1912-1990).
Oil
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H 11.75 in W 13 in D 1.5 in
Vintage Pair of Mid-Century California Desert Oil Paintings by H. Meade
Located in Topeka, KS
Gorgeous pair of mid-century California desert oil paintings by H. Meade in pickled wood frames.
Wood, Paint
Idealized California Desert Landscape Painting
By Bill Hager
Located in Houston, TX
Idealized natural landscape of the California Desert with hills in the foreground and mountains in the background. The painting is signed and dated by the artist in the bottom corner...
Oil
California Desert Landscape
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful antique American tonalist landscape depicting a sunset over a beautiful California desert.
Board, Oil
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H 23 in W 36 in D 0.2 in
California or Arizona Signed Oil Painting Desert Mountain Landscape With Clouds
Located in Studio City, CA
A quite beautiful and engaging artist signed vintage California or Arizona oil on board landscape painting featuring a distant mountain range which rising majestically in the backgro...
Paint
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H 14 in W 17 in D 3 in
Mid Century Smoke Tree California Desert Mountain Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century landscape of smoke trees in a California desert setting by Dorothy Binsacca (American, 1899-1990). Signed "Dorothy Binsacca" lower right and on verso. Titled "S...
Canvas, Oil
Antique California Desert Valley Sunset Oil Painting by Axel Linus
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique impressionist oil painting of a California sunset by Axel Linus (1885 - 1980). Oil on canvas, circa 1940. Signed. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image, 16"L x 12"H...
Canvas, Oil
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H 12 in W 10 in D 1.25 in
"Desert Mountain"- Early California Redwood Trees Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Gorgeous early California landscape painting of redwood trees by unknown artist in the 1940's. Titled by artist on the back.
Oil
Twin Palms - California Desert Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant desert landscape with twin palms by Gail Pace (American, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "G. Pace" lower right. Image size, 16"H x 12"W.
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
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H 16 in W 20 in D 0.75 in
'Winter, Palm Desert', California Art Club, Palm Springs Oil, Laguna Plein Air
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Masters' for Terry Masters (American, born 1955) and painted circa 2000. Terry Masters is an award-winning plein air painter and a California Art Club (CAC) Sig...
Canvas, Oil
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H 19.5 in W 23.25 in D 1.25 in
Smoke Tree Southern California High Desert 1966
Located in Soquel, CA
Smoke Tree Southern California High Desert 1966 Detailed desert scene on linen by Southern California Plein Aire painter Dorothy L. Wolters (American, early 20th C) Image 16"H x 20...
Linen, Masonite, Oil
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H 19.5 in W 23.75 in D 1 in
Late 20th Century California Desert Valley Impressionist Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 20th Century California Desert Valley Impressionist Landscape Beautiful late 20th century impressionist landscape of a California valley scene by an anonymous artist using the...
Canvas, Oil
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H 20 in W 24 in D 0.33 in
Mid Century 1960s Palm Springs California Desert Landscape
By Marjorie May Blake
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century landscape of Palm Springs Desert by Marjorie Blake (American, 1920-1994). Signed lower right corner. Condition: good; normal edge wear for age. Unframed. Image ...
Oil, Fiberboard
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H 29.5 in W 47 in D 3 in
California Desert Landscape w/ Sand Verbena by Elizabeth Hewlett Watkins c.1940s
Located in San Francisco, CA
California Desert Landscape w/ Sand Verbena by Elizabeth Hewlett Watkins c.1940s Beautiful vintage oil painting of California desert sand dunes covered with Sand Verbena.
Canvas, Oil
It could be argued that cave walls were the canvases for the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict and elevate natural scenery through art, but there is a richer history to consider.
The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. Greeks created vast wall paintings that depicted landscapes and grandiose garden scenes, while in the late 15th century and early 16th century, landscapes were increasingly the subject of watercolor works by the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Fra Bartolomeo.
The popularity of religious paintings eventually declined altogether, and by the early 19th century, painters of classical landscapes took to painting out-of-doors (plein-air painting). Paintings of natural scenery were increasingly realistic but romanticized too. Into the 20th century, landscapes remained a major theme for many artists, and while the term “landscape painting” may call to mind images of lush, grassy fields and open seascapes, the genre is characterized by more variety, colors and diverse styles than you may think. Painters working in the photorealist style of landscape painting, for example, seek to create works so lifelike that you may confuse their paint for camera pixels. But if you’re shopping for art to outfit an important room, the work needs to be something with a bit of gravitas (and the right frame is important, too).
Adding a landscape painting to your home can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of your own space. (Some may think of it as an aspirational window of sorts rather than a canvas.) Abstract landscape paintings by the likes of Korean painter Seungyoon Choi or Georgia-based artist Katherine Sandoz, on the other hand, bring pops of color and movement into a room. These landscapes refuse to serve as a background. Elsewhere, Adam Straus’s technology-inspired paintings highlight how our extreme involvement with our devices has removed us from the glory of the world around us. Influenced by modern life and steeped in social commentary, Straus’s landscape paintings make us see our surroundings anew.
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