David Colli
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
People Also Browsed
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Oil
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Oil, Wood Panel
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
Venice Landscape Italian Oil on Canvas Painting in Gilt Wood Frame, Belle Epoque, Early 20th Century
2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Oil, Canvas
Antique 19th Century Italian Barbizon School Paintings
Wood, Paint
1890s Realist Figurative Paintings
Oil, Canvas
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Artist Comments
"Key West in the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys was once the mecca for shrimp and hundreds of shrimp trawlers who searched the Gulf of Mexico for this elu...
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Acrylic
Artist Comments
"This friendly little docking pier sits on the edge of Sarasota's New Pass channel, which is one of the main nautical waterways to the Gulf of Mexico where grou...
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Gouache, Pastel
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Canvas
Finding the Right landscape-paintings for You
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.
Whether you’re seeking works by the world’s most notable names or those authored by underground legends, find a vast collection of landscape paintings on 1stDibs.