'Rural Mailboxes', California Woman Artist, Society of Western Artists
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Burnham SWA' for Jane Burnham Crawford (American 1926-2016) and painted circa 1985.
Watercolor, Laid Paper
Kimono
By Jane Burnham
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Kimono" c.1970 is a watercolor on paper by American impressionist artist Jane Burnham, 1926-2016. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist.
Watercolor
San Carlos, Borromeo Del Carmelo
By Jane Burnham
Located in San Francisco, CA
It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Jane Burnham Crawford was born into a military family on July 5, 1926, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Watercolor
China Town San Francisco Street Scene
By Jane Burnham
Located in Soquel, CA
Street scene by watercolor artist, Jane Burnham (American, 20th century). Presented in a wooden frame.
Paper, Watercolor
Yosemite Falls
By Jane Burnham
Located in San Francisco, CA
It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Jane Burnham Crawford was born into a military family on July 5, 1926, in Omaha, Nebraska.
Watercolor
Silver Tea Pot Still Life
By Michael Linstrom
Located in Soquel, CA
As a young man he studied with water colorist, Jane Burnham WSA and then, Jean Swan Gordon, a "Cape School Impressionist".
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century California Mission Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century landscape of a historic California mission, highlighting its iconic architectural details such as a columned arches, white washed walls, and terra cotta roof, b...
Paper, Gouache, Cardboard
Woman in Kimono
By Everett Lloyd Bryant
Located in Sheffield, MA
Everett Lloyd Bryant American, 1864-1945 Woman in Kimono Oil on canvas Signed lower right 30 by 25 in. W/frame 35 by 30 in. Everett studied with Blanc and Couture in Paris; Herkom...
Oil
$1,012Sale Price|25% Off
H 28.25 in W 34.25 in D 0.75 in
California Vineyard, Large-Scale Farmhouse Landscape Watercolor
By Carolyn Hofstetter
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant large-scale landscape watercolor of a California vineyard by S.W.A. artist Carolyn Hofstetter (American, b.1927). This beautiful scene of farmhouses on a vineyard in the Cali...
Paper, Watercolor
"Mission San Jose" San Antonio Texas
By Jeanette Milam Jones
Located in San Antonio, TX
Jeannette Milam Jones (1903-1999) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11.5 x 14.25 Frame Size: 16 x 19 Medium: Oil "Mission San Jose" Biography Jeannette Milam Jones (1903 - 1989) T...
Oil
Mid-Century California Mission Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid-century watercolor landscape of a California mission with a tree in the foreground by an unknown artist (American, 20th century). Unsigned. Displayed in a simple wood f...
Paper, Watercolor
California landscape
By Carl Sammons
Located in Houston, TX
Considered one of the early "California Impressionists" Carl Sammons is known for plain air landscapes that featured the flowering plants native to the coasts, mountains, and desert...
Pastel
$312
H 12 in W 18 in D 0.1 in
Santa Barbara Environs, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
By Daniel Clarke
Located in Yardley, PA
Santa Barbara is a city on the central California coast, with the Santa Ynez Mountains as dramatic backdrop. Downtown, Mediterranean-style white stucco buildings with red-tile roofs ...
Watercolor
1940's California Mission Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Watercolor of an old California mission. Signed lower right illegibly and dated 1940. Displayed in a brown wood frame with double matting. Shipped without glass. Image, 16.5"W x 22"L...
Paper, Watercolor
Dream, Mixed Media on Watercolor Paper
By Freda Alschuler
Located in Yardley, PA
decorative art Italian influence :: Mixed Media :: Italian & Tuscan :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Sig...
Mixed Media
$86Sale Price|20% Off
H 11.82 in W 16.34 in D 0.04 in
Rural landscape. Paper, watercolor, 30 x 41. 5 cm
By Dzidra Ezergaile
Located in Riga, LV
Rural landscape. Paper, watercolor, 30x41.5 cm Dzidra Ezergaile (1926-2013) Born in Riga. School years alternate with summer work in the countryside. In 1947, she began her studies ...
Paper, Watercolor
Chinese Girl
By Edna Hibel
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Chinese Girl" c.1970, is a colors lithograph on Japan nacre paper by American artist Edna Hibel, 1917-2014. It is signed and inscribed Artist Proof in pencil by the art...
Lithograph
Mid Century Coastal Town Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming and colorful mid century watercolor of a small coastal neighborhood and orchard by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Initialed and dated "ZD '64" lower right corne...
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape with House, California
By Ralph Ledesma
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Landscape with House, California" is a watercolor on paper by California artist Ralph Ledesma, 1910-1993. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. T...
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Carmel Mission Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Carmel Mission Landscape Vibrant early 20th Century painting of Mission San Carlos Borromeo del río Carmelo, aka Carmel Mission, prior to its restoration, by an ...
Canvas, Oil
$780Sale Price|20% Off
H 24 in W 20 in D 2 in
Mid Century Carmel Mission Landscape by Elmer Ekeroth
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Carmel Mission Landscape by Elmer Ekeroth Wonderful landscape of the historic bell tower of the Carmel Mission with background of dynamic coastal clouds and a foregroun...
Canvas, Oil
$2,150
H 16 in W 19.5 in D 0.75 in
California Hills, Mid Century Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor by an unknown artist, in the style of Elmer Wachtel (American, 1864 - 1929). This mid-century landscape watercolor features a golden yellow meadow beside a country...
Watercolor, Laid Paper
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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