$3,500
"Sunset Striations" Dennis Sheehan, New England Sunset, Dramatic Skyscape
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan Sunset Striations, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 18 x 24 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School w...
Canvas, Oil
William Merritt Post, Listed American Artist, New England Landscape
By William Merritt Post
Located in Rockport, MA
William Merritt Post (1856–1935) was an American tonalist and landscape painter celebrated for his atmospheric depictions of rural New England. Working in a tonal style, Post used mu...
Oil
Upland Fir Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color New England
By Peter Batchelder
Located in Houston, TX
Upland Fir is a framed oil on canvas painting by artist Peter Batchelder. It is 30" x 18" inches. Artist Statement Throughout my life I have had the benefit of living in differe...
Canvas, Oil
$9,000
"Provincetown Harbor" Colin Scott, New England, Sailboats, Harbor Scene
Located in New York, NY
Colin Scott Provincetown Harbor Signed lower right Oil on board 15 x 20 inches
Oil, Board
James Jeffrey Grant Gloucester Harbor Oil Painting New England Maritime
Located in Rockport, MA
Oil Painting (on canvas board) Size (unframed): 14" x 16" Framed Size: 21" x 23" Signature: Signed lower right This atmospheric harbor scene by James Jeffrey Grant captures the tim...
Oil
"Rolling Hills of New England" Richard Stalter, American, Countryside Landscape
By Richard Stalter
Located in New York, NY
In 1958, during a six month stay in New York City, he met and befriended a master impressionist artist, Bernard Lennon.
Oil, Board
Paul Strisik Watercolor & Gouache “Morgans Meadow” Coastal New England Landscape
By Paul Strisik
Located in Rockport, MA
"Morgans Meadow" is a beautiful mix of watercolor and gouache by celebrated American painter Paul Strisik (1918–1998), renowned for his evocative depictions of the New England coast....
Watercolor, Gouache
"New England Spirit" Dennis Sheehan, Cloudy Day, Atmospheric Dark Impressionism
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan New England Spirit, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 16 x 20 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School w...
Canvas, Oil
"New England Sunset" Dennis Sheehan, Water Reflections, Bright Dusk Skyscape
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan New England Sunset, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon School w...
Canvas, Oil
"New England Splendor" Dennis Sheehan, Tonalist Sunset, Reflections in Marsh
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan New England Splendor, circa 2025 Signed lower right Oil on canvas laid to foam 7 1/4 x 8 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the...
Canvas, Foam, Oil
Emile A. Gruppé “Sunlight on the Steeple” New England Landscape Oil
By Emile Gruppe
Located in Rockport, MA
"Sunlight on the Steeple" is a luminous New England landscape by Emile A. Gruppé (1896–1978), one of America’s most celebrated Impressionists and a leading figure of the Cape Ann art...
Oil
Aldro T. Hibbard Oil Painting “Winter Landscape” New England Snow Scene
Located in Rockport, MA
The rhythmic arrangement of hills and structures leads the eye through the composition, evoking both the quiet stillness and enduring resilience of rural New England life. A classic...
Oil
$716Sale Price|20% Off
Antique American Framed Beach Scene Modernist New England Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Canvas, Oil
Charles Vickery, "Quiet Harbor" New England Harbor Scene with Fishing Vessel
Located in Rockport, MA
Signed Lower Right Painting size without the frame: 16"x20" Painting size with frame: 21"x25" Charles Vickery's "Quiet Harbor" captures the peaceful atmosphere of a working New Eng...
Oil
$3,100
Blueberry Meadow Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color Pastures New England
By Peter Batchelder
Located in Houston, TX
Blueberry Meadow is a framed oil on canvas painting by artist Peter Batchelder. Artist Statement Throughout my life I have had the benefit of living in different rural environments...
Canvas, Oil
Carl W. Peters New England Street Scene (Gott Street, Rockport, MA)
Located in Rockport, MA
Signed Lower Left Painting Size: 20" × 24" with frame: 28"x 32" Oil on Canvas This charming street scene by Carl W. Peters depicts a quiet moment of everyday life in Rockport, Mass...
Oil
Rob Meyers, "Seagull", 22x28 New England Sailboat Coastal Water Oil Painting
By Rob Meyers
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
"Seagull" is a 22x28 oil painting on canvas by artist Rob Meyers featuring a serene waterscape featuring softly colored boats resting on calm, misty water. Subtle reflections and a l...
Canvas, Oil
"The Neighbor's Barn" Richard Stalter, Red Barn, New England Snowy Landscape
By Richard Stalter
Located in New York, NY
Richard Stalter The Neighbor's Barn Oil on board 8 7/8 x 12 inches Richard Stalter was born in Dayton, Ohio, on April 27, 1934. He developed an interest in art at a very early age,...
Oil, Board
$12,000Sale Price|20% Off
Americana New England Lighthouse Sailboats , Sunday at the Beach, Summer Fun
By Sean O'Shean
Located in Miami, FL
The location looks like New England. Signed Lower Right Provenance: Treadway Toomey Galleries
Oil
Boulders Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color New England 30" x 40"
By Peter Batchelder
Located in Houston, TX
Boulders 30" x 40" $4800 oil on stretched canvas New England Artist Statement Throughout my life I have had the benefit of living in different rural environments within New Eng...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Landscape Painting by New England Artist David P. Curtis (1950-2021)
Located in Rockport, MA
Capture the rustic charm of a New England barn, its red doors and reflective windows glowing warmly in the light of a crisp autumn day. The sliver of the moon in the sky adds a touch...
Oil
"Quietude" Dennis Sheehan, Dark, New England Landscape at Dusk, Pond Reflections
By Dennis Sheehan
Located in New York, NY
Dennis Sheehan Quietude, circa 2025 Signed lower left Oil on canvas laid to foam 12 1/2 x 17 inches Dennis Sheehan was born in Boston in 1950. His work is based upon the Barbizon S...
Canvas, Oil, Foam Board
Landscape Painting by New England Artist David P. Curtis "Sweet Sound"
Located in Rockport, MA
Step into the tranquility of a quiet cove in this serene coastal scene. The shimmering reflections on the water and the soft clouds drifting across the sky invite you to pause and ta...
Oil
Cutting The Ice/New England Winter Landscape, Shank Painters Pond Provincetown
By John Whorf
Located in Milford, NH
A fine watercolor painting of men cutting ice on Shank Painters Pond, Provincetown, MA by American artist John Whorf (1903-1959). Whorf was born in Winthrop, Massachusetts and by the...
Paper, Watercolor
$2,220Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Finely Framed Paper Birch New England Coastal Seascape Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed in a period arts and crafts giltwood frame. Image size, 20H x 16L.
Canvas, Oil
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
'Sand Dunes at Annisquam, Cape Ann', Massachusetts, Gloucester, New England, NAD
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Chas. H. Grant' for Charles Henry Grant (American, 1866-1939); titled on lower stretcher bar, 'Sand Dunes at Annisquam, Cape Ann, Mass' and dated 1894. Born in ...
Canvas, Oil
$380Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage American School Modernist New England Landscape Framed Lake Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Canvas, Oil
$1,996Sale Price|20% Off
New England Beach Town Fauvist Palette Modernist Framed Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist coastal beach town oil painting by Jon Carsman (1944 - 1987). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Canvas, Oil
First Light Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color New England 40" x 30"
By Peter Batchelder
Located in Houston, TX
First Light $4800 oil on stretched canvas New England Contemporary Landscape Artist Statement Throughout my life I have had the benefit of living in different rural environments w...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$4,980
Grove Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color New England 30" x 40" Contemporary
By Peter Batchelder
Located in Houston, TX
Grove Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color New England 30" x 40" Contemporary Artist Statement Throughout my life I have had the benefit of living in different rural environments...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Spring Thaw Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color New England 40" x 30"
By Peter Batchelder
Located in Houston, TX
Spring Thaw Oil /Canvas Landscape Light & Color New England 40" x 30" Artist Statement Throughout my life I have had the benefit of living in different rural environments with...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
New England Country Side Covered Bridge Painting by Maine artist William Fisher
By William Fisher
Located in New York, NY
William Fisher (American, 1891-1985) Untitled (Covered Bridge), 20th century Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in. Signed lower right: William Fisher William Fisher was born in Brooklyn, NY in ...
Canvas, Oil
$450
Over the Pastel Garden Wall - New England - Original Oil Pastel on Paper 1998
Located in Soquel, CA
Over the Pastel Garden Wall - New England - Original Oil Pastel on Paper Bright New England watercolor by New Hampshire artist Eileen Belanger (American, 20th C.) A brightly colored ...
Paper, Oil Pastel
$5,440Sale Price|20% Off
New England Town Scene Oil Painting by listed artist Emile Gruppe (1896-1978)
Located in Baltimore, MD
Emile Albert Gruppe was a very well known Cape Ann, Massachusetts painter who founded his own Gruppe Summer School in 1942. He was born in Rochester, NY in 1896 and studied at the A...
Oil
American Flag Impressionist Signed Framed Summer Street Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school impressionist new England street scene oil painting .
Oil
Tree Screen
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist New England woodland landscape by American artist Emile Albert Gruppé (1896-1978).
Canvas, Oil
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.
Find a collection of authentic Impressionist art on 1stDibs.
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.