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New Hope Impressionist Art

Summer Farm, American Impressionist, Oil, Landscape, New Hope, Pennsylvania
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Buffalo, New York native John Folinsbee received his artistic training at the Art Student League in
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

New Hope Hills
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951) New Hope Hills, c. 1931 Oil on canvas, 16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Exhibited American New Hope PA Impressionist Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare early American impressionist landscape painting by Blanche Huntington Stanley. Oil on canvas
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"New Hope Gothic"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on. Source: New Hope for American Art, James M
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"New Hope Gothic"
"New Hope Gothic"
$11,200
H 27 in W 29 in D 2 in
"Flowers, New Hope"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on. Source: New Hope for American Art, James M
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Flowers, New Hope"
"Flowers, New Hope"
$8,700
H 22 in W 22 in D 2 in
"Autumn, New Hope"
By John Wells James
Located in Lambertville, NJ
painting, Brooklyn-born John Wells James was a significant member of the New Hope Art Colony. He was the
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Autumn, New Hope"
"Autumn, New Hope"
$28,150
H 20 in W 24 in D 2 in
"High Water, New Hope"
By Anthony Michael Autorino
Located in Lambertville, NJ
welcoming art community, New Hope would be the home of the new studio/gallery named “The Gallery” on
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"River Above New Hope"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on. Source: New Hope for American Art, James M
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"River Above New Hope"
"River Above New Hope"
$14,375
H 34 in W 38 in D 2 in
"Hills Beyond New Hope"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on. Source: New Hope for American Art, James M
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Hills Beyond New Hope"
"Hills Beyond New Hope"
$8,700
H 25 in W 23 in D 2 in
"A New Hope Street"
By John Wells James
Located in Lambertville, NJ
carved and gilt frame. Illustrated in "New Hope for American Art" John Wells James (1873 - 1951) A
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1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Early Light, New Hope Railway Yard"
By Anthony Michael Autorino
Located in Lambertville, NJ
welcoming art community, New Hope would be the home of the new studio/gallery named “The Gallery” on
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pearl A Van Sciver New Hope Pennsylvania
Located in San Francisco, CA
measures 25 inches high by 21. The scene is most likely New Hope Pennsylvania or Lambertville, New Jersey.
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

A New Hope, Helen Howells, Oil on Canvas, Landscape Painting
By Helen Howells
Located in Deddington, GB
A New Hope by Helen Howells [2022] " A New Hope" is an original oil on canvas landscape painting
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Women Seated in Garden "Femmos Restant" New Hope Pennsylvania Artist Edna Gass
By Edna Gass
Located in Soquel, CA
Women at Rest. "Edna Gass" on Verso American Impressionist Artist New Hope School Edna Gass was a
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1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

"View of New Hope" Pennsylvania Pastoral Autumnal Landscape Bridge Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist pastoral scene of a quaint autumnal view of the bridge heading into New Hope, Bucks
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"River Road New Hope" Bucks County PA Midnight with Stars Snow Landscape Scene
Located in New York, NY
painter in the New Hope, Bucks County using the mediums of oil on board or canvas, and watercolor in an
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Point Pleasant" Bucks County New Hope PA River Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
full time painter in the New Hope, Bucks County using the mediums of oil on board or canvas, and
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

"River House" River Road New Hope PA Twilight Snow Scene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home by New Hope, PA. Willett has
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Dusk
By Hope Shipee Bunin
Located in Milford, NH
military planes fly overhead by American artist Hope Shipee Bunin (1908-1970). Bunin was a self-taught
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1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Dusk
Dusk
$4,900
H 34.5 in W 30.5 in D 2 in
Garden Flowers
By Charles Demuth
Located in New York, NY
style began to evolve. New Hope was a prominent American Impressionist art colony whose members were
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20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Garden Flowers
Garden Flowers
$375,000
H 13.88 in W 10 in

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Antonio Martino, Winter in New Hope, Oil on Canvas, 1940's
By Antonio Pietro Martino
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Winter, New Hope" is an American Landscape Scene by Impressionist painter Antonio Pietro Martino
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

John Folinsbee, View of New Hope from Lambertville, Oil on Paper, Signed
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Doylestown, PA
one of the earliest members of the New Hope art colony. Now regarded as one of the greatest of the New
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Albert Van Nesse Greene, Bridge with Blooming Tree, New Hope PA, Pastel on Paper
By Albert Van Nesse Greene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Bridge with Blooming Tree, New Hope" by Albert Van Nesse Greene is an 8.5" x 10.5" pastel on paper
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

"New Hope"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on. Source: New Hope for American Art, James M
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"New Hope"
"New Hope"
H 30 in W 32 in D 2 in
New Hope Canal, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Impressionist, Regional Landscape
By Laurence A. Campbell
Located in Doylestown, PA
"New Hope Canal" by American Impressionist painter Laurence A. Campbell is a 36 x 48 inches, oil on
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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"January, New Hope"
By Evelyn Faherty
Located in Lambertville, NJ
. She is a Bucks County Impressionist, also known as the "New Hope School" and studied under the famous
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"January, New Hope"
H 16 in W 19 in D 2 in
"New Hope Cottage"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on. Source: New Hope for American Art, James M
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"New Hope Cottage"
"New Hope Cottage"
H 22 in W 19 in D 2 in
"New Hope Farm"
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Lambertville, NJ
of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John Folinsbee, did so in 1916. Born
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1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Spring Valley, New Hope School, American Impressionist Landscape with Figures
By Daniel Garber
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Spring Valley" by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Daniel Garber is an 19" x
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Archival Paper

"Winter Scene: Canal Near New Hope, Pennsylvania" Impressionist Snowy Landscape
By George Gardner Symons
Located in New York, NY
George Gardner Symons Winter Scene: Canal Near New Hope, Pennsylvania Signed lower left Oil on
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Bright Night, New Hope"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on. Source: New Hope for American Art, James M
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Late 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Road to New Hope
By Edward Willis Redfield
Located in Lambertville, NJ
many museums throughout the United States and abroad. Sources: - “New Hope for American Art” by James
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fisherman's Home, New Hope School, Impressionist Landscape, Oil on Canvas
By William Langson Lathrop
Located in Doylestown, PA
- 1938) Founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, Lathrop was known as one of America's
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Late 19th Century Tonalist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Top of the Hill, American Impressionist Landscape with Figure, New Hope School
By Henry Bayley Snell
Located in Doylestown, PA
by Henry Snell (New Hope, Pennsylvania / Gloucester, Massachusetts 1858 - 1943). The painting
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Board

"New Hope from Lewis Island"
By Anthony Michael Autorino
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Hope School” Impressionist painting. Sources: New Hope for American Art by James M. Alterman
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"New Hope from Across the Delaware"
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Lambertville, NJ
- 1972) One of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John Folinsbee, did so in
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1920s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Along the Canal, New Hope"
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Lambertville, NJ
of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John Folinsbee, did so in 1916. Born
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1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Winter on the Canal, New Hope"
By Evelyn Faherty
Located in Lambertville, NJ
, also known as the "New Hope School" and studied under the famous "New Hope School"
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"New Hope PA" Bucks County PA, Pastoral Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Walter Emerson Baum, greatly inspired by the painters of the original “New Hope School." Christopher
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Mill on New Hope" PA Bucks County Twilight Snow Scene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
natural talent on the tradition in the arts, and mainly working as a full time painter in the New Hope
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Meandering Brook
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left One of the only members of the New Hope Art Colony/ Pennsylvania
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Boat Worker (New England landscape, New Hope Impressionist)
By Harry Leith-Ross
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
, 1922-33; New Hope, PA, 1937- Profession: Landscape painter Studied: Stanhope Forbes in England; Acad
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1960s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Cows, Impressionist Landscape with Animals, New Hope School, Pennsylvania
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Doylestown, PA
, becoming one of the earliest members of the New Hope art colony. Now regarded as one of the greatest of the
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Saturday Night, New Hope, " Pennsylvania, Delaware River, Impressionist, 2005
By Anthony Michael Autorino
Located in Wiscasset, ME
, Autorino moved to New Hope, Pennsylvania, where he set up a studio and gallery space, eventually relocating
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Bucks County Playhouse, American Impressionist Landscape, New Hope, PA, 2019
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Playhouse" is an Impressionist landscape by Pennsylvania/New Jersey artist Trisha Vergis. The
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2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist New Hope Pointillist Landscape Farm Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1910. Unsigned
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Houses in Summer, New Hope, American Impressionist Landscape, Pastel on Paper
By Albert Van Nesse Greene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Houses in Summer, New Hope" is a colorful and lush summer landscape by American Impressionist
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Archival Paper

Autumn Landscape (New Hope PA)
By Cesare Ricciardi
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cesare Ricciardi (1882-1973). Autumn Landscape (New Hope). Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 inches. Unframed
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Autumn Landscape (New Hope PA)
By Cesare Ricciardi
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cesare Ricciardi (1882-1973). Autumn Landscape (New Hope), 1938. Oil on canvas, 27 x 26 inches, 31
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fern Coppedge (American, 1883-1951) "New Hope, Pennsylvania" Oil Painting
By Fern Isabel Coppedge
Located in San Francisco, CA
Coppedge became a plein-air impressionist painter especially noted for snow scene landscapes of New Hope
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Going to New Hope" Bucks County PA, Pastoral Winter Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
tradition in the arts, and mainly working as a full time painter in the New Hope, Bucks County using the
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

"Evening Walk River Road" North of New Hope PA Twilight Snow Scene Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home by New Hope PA. Willett has
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Rae Sloan Bredin, Along the Canal, New Hope PA, Oil on Canvas, ca. 1914
By Rae Sloan Bredin
Located in Doylestown, PA
his association with the New Hope Impressionist painters, an area he first visited in 1909. Bredin is
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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New Hope Impressionist Art For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the piece of new hope impressionist art you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. In our selection of items, you can find Impressionist examples as well as a Abstract version. Finding the perfect item from our selection of new hope impressionist art may mean sifting through those created during different time periods — you can find an early version that dates to the 19th Century and a newer variation that were made as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right choice in our collection of new hope impressionist art for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of brown, gray, beige and orange. Finding an appealing object in our assortment of new hope impressionist art — no matter the origin — is easy, but Joseph Barrett, John Fulton Folinsbee, Anthony Michael Autorino, Daniel Garber and Evelyn Faherty each produced popular versions that are worth a look. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, oil paint and canvas. A large option in this array of new hope impressionist art can be an attractive addition to some spaces, while smaller examples are available — approximately spanning 8 high and 10 wide — and may be better suited to a more modest living area.

How Much is a New Hope Impressionist Art?

The average selling price for a piece of new hope impressionist art we offer is $15,583, while they’re typically $1,200 on the low end and $493,750 for the highest priced.

A Close Look at Impressionist Art

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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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.