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Bass Rocks, Gloucester Impressionist Seascape; New Jersey Artist Helen Stockton
Bass Rocks, Gloucester Impressionist Seascape; New Jersey Artist Helen Stockton

Bass Rocks, Gloucester Impressionist Seascape; New Jersey Artist Helen Stockton

Located in Baltimore, MD

This colorful and powerful seascape might help to brighten your walls and room. It is of Bass Rocks in Gloucester Massachusetts. Artist Helen Marie Stockton used bold turquoise col...

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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Early View of Stockton, New Jersey
Early View of Stockton, New Jersey

Early View of Stockton, New Jersey

By Kenneth Nunamaker

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

Kenneth Nunamaker never took a formal art lesson. His “training” began during his travels out West as a young man, where he painted in his spare time. It continued informally through...

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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Coast of New Jersey Below Asbury Park
Coast of New Jersey Below Asbury Park

Coast of New Jersey Below Asbury Park

By Hayley Lever

Located in Milford, NH

A fine impressionist coastal painting of the New Jersey coast by Australian / American artist Heyley Lever (1876-1958).

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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Passing Storm, Long Beach Island, New Jersey"
"Passing Storm, Long Beach Island, New Jersey"

"Passing Storm, Long Beach Island, New Jersey"

By Anthony Michael Autorino

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Anthony’s work is clearly a continuing chapter in the story of “New Hope School” Impressionist painting. Sources: New Hope for American Art by James M.

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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Torrey Cliff, Palisades, New Jersey" William Quinlan, American Impressionism
"Torrey Cliff, Palisades, New Jersey" William Quinlan, American Impressionism

"Torrey Cliff, Palisades, New Jersey" William Quinlan, American Impressionism

Located in New York, NY

William Quinlan Torrey Cliff, Palisades, New Jersey, 1939 Signed and dated lower right; titled on reverse Oil on artist board 10 x 8 inches Private collection, New York c. 1955 Esta...

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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall  New Jersey Watercolor 1878
"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall  New Jersey Watercolor 1878

"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall New Jersey Watercolor 1878

Located in Soquel, CA

"A Shady Runlet" Stream in Fall New Jersey Watercolor 1878 A rare and exceptional watercolor of two ladies viewing a New Jersey stream in fall by William C. Bauer (American, 1856- 1...

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1870s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Parrot and Chrysanthemum, Interior Still Life by New Jersey Artist
Parrot and Chrysanthemum, Interior Still Life by New Jersey Artist

Parrot and Chrysanthemum, Interior Still Life by New Jersey Artist

By James Crawford Thom

Located in Doylestown, PA

Parrot and Chrysanthemum, by New Jersey artist James Crawford Thom, is an interior still life. The oil on canvas is 42 x 23.5 inches, it is signed "Thom" lower right, and it is frame...

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19th Century American Impressionist Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sketch for Post Office Mural in Short Hills, New Jersey
Sketch for Post Office Mural in Short Hills, New Jersey

Sketch for Post Office Mural in Short Hills, New Jersey

By Ernest Lawson

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This small oil sketch was a study, which Lawson made for a mural commission for the Short Hills, New Jersey Post Office. He began working on the mural in Florida, late in the summer ...

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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Oil Painting Landscape Female Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Landscape Female Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Landscape Female Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high school ...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Oil, Board

"French Town, New Jersey" Mystic Autumn Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
"French Town, New Jersey" Mystic Autumn Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Framed

"French Town, New Jersey" Mystic Autumn Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Framed

By Robert Waltsak

Located in New York, NY

A wonderful impressionist Autumn pastoral landscape with beautiful color tones through out. Waltsak has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed muc...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore
Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore

Big Moon over Magenta Sea - Pink Crashing Wave at New Jersey Shore

By Mitchell Funk

Located in Miami, FL

Veteran photographer Mitchell Funk strikes a fine balance between abstraction and representation in this optically pleasing color photograph. The sky turns pink magenta as waves cras...

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1970s American Impressionist Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high school ...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Oil, Board

19th century black and white etching landscape scene boat riverbank trees signed
19th century black and white etching landscape scene boat riverbank trees signed

19th century black and white etching landscape scene boat riverbank trees signed

By Thomas R. Manley

Located in Milwaukee, WI

It depicts a waterfront scene in black and gray. 26 1/2" x 33 1/2" art 26 3/8" x 33 3/8" framed Thomas Manley was one of New Jersey's foremost Impressionist painters, etchers, and...

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1880s American Impressionist Landscape Prints

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Etching

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West Shore Terminal Weehouken, New Jersey
West Shore Terminal Weehouken, New Jersey

West Shore Terminal Weehouken, New Jersey

By Leon Kroll

Located in Graton, CA

This is the painting which was exhibited at the 1915 Pacific Panama International Exhibition, one of Kroll's most famous pieces. It looks out from Weehauken toward the Manhattan skyl...

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1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Autumn Birches, Wallkill River, New Jersey" - Framed 20th Century Oil Landscape
"Autumn Birches, Wallkill River, New Jersey" - Framed 20th Century Oil Landscape

"Autumn Birches, Wallkill River, New Jersey" - Framed 20th Century Oil Landscape

By Dede Esenlohr

Located in New Orleans, LA

The white paper bark birches appear almost as abstraction in the foreground of the broad river here, with the leaves of the forest on the far bank having taken on their autumn colors...

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1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Near Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey"  Date: 1908.  Exquisite small snow scene!!!!!!
"Near Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey"  Date: 1908.  Exquisite small snow scene!!!!!!

"Near Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey" Date: 1908. Exquisite small snow scene!!!!!!

By Julian Onderdonk

Located in San Antonio, TX

Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 6 x 9 Frame Size: 19 x 22 Medium: Oil Dated 1909 "Near Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey" Julian Onderdonk (1882 - 1922) Known...

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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Along the Canal"
"Along the Canal"

"Along the Canal"

By Thomas R. Manley

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Manley (1853-1938) One of New Jersey's foremost Impressionist painters, also an etcher and lithographer, Thomas Manley was known as "the Dean of Montclair artists".

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1910s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

New Jersey #10 - contemporary Impressionist landscape, blue & silver sea / ocean
New Jersey #10 - contemporary Impressionist landscape, blue & silver sea / ocean

New Jersey #10 - contemporary Impressionist landscape, blue & silver sea / ocean

By Anne Leith

Located in Bryn Mawr, PA

This is an Impressionism style oil painting of the New Jersey shore, painted "plein-air," or outside on location by the sea. It is an excellent, naturalistic view of the ocean and sh...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Silver

"Barns and Silos in New Jersey" Wolf Kahn, Landscape, Abstract Impressionist
"Barns and Silos in New Jersey" Wolf Kahn, Landscape, Abstract Impressionist

"Barns and Silos in New Jersey" Wolf Kahn, Landscape, Abstract Impressionist

By Wolf Kahn

Located in New York, NY

Wolf Kahn Barns and Silos in New Jersey, 1985 Signed lower center Oil on canvas 28 x 34 inches An important member of the second generation New York School, Wolf Kahn is renowned fo...

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1980s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"At Keyport, New Jersey"

"At Keyport, New Jersey"

By Hayley Lever

Located in Lambertville, NJ

Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958) Hayley Lever's exceptional career path took him from the shores of his native Australia to tho...

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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Painting Nantucket Rare 1891 New York Jersey Seascape

Antique American Painting Nantucket Rare 1891 New York Jersey Seascape

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American watercolor painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. This work depicts Nantucket and is titled as such an...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Antique American Painting Nantucket Rare 1891 New York Jersey Seascape

Antique American Painting Nantucket Rare 1891 New York Jersey Seascape

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American watercolor painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. This work depicts Nantucket and is titled as such an...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Antique American Oil Painting Interior Framed Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Interior Framed Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Interior Framed Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American interior scene painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high sch...

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1910s American Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Oil Painting Landscape Female Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Landscape Female Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Landscape Female Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high school ...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Oil, Board

Morris Hall Pancoast Lanes Cove Gloucester Oil Painting New Jersey Rockport Art
Morris Hall Pancoast Lanes Cove Gloucester Oil Painting New Jersey Rockport Art

Morris Hall Pancoast Lanes Cove Gloucester Oil Painting New Jersey Rockport Art

By Morris Hall Pancoast

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Morris Hall Pancoast (1877-1963) Illustrated in "New Hope for American Art" page 375. Born in Salem, New Jersey, Morris Hall Pancoast was a painter, illustrator and cartoonist.

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high school ...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high school ...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high school ...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey
Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

Antique American Oil Painting Still Life Flora Rare 19th Century New York Jersey

By Sallie Van Horn

Located in Buffalo, NY

A stunning antique American still life painting from the recently acquired estate of New York/New Jersey artist Sallie Van Horn. Van Horn taught painting and drawing to high school ...

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Late 19th Century American Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Passaic Falls, New Jersey,
Passaic Falls, New Jersey,

Passaic Falls, New Jersey,

By Benjamin Hartley

Located in Concord, MA

BENJAMIN HARTLEY (1838-1912) Passaic Falls, New Jersey, 1857 Oil on paper on canvas 5 ½ x 4 inches Unsigned Titled and dated in artist’s hand on the support: Passaic Falls / New Jers...

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1850s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Oil

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By Michael Budden

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

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Oil

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"Sunday in the Park, 1910"

"Sunday in the Park, 1910"

By Cyprien Eugène Boulet

Located in Lambertville, NJ

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Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mill Creek
Mill Creek

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$42,500

H 14 in W 18 in D 1 in

Mill Creek

By Fern Isabel Coppedge

Located in Southampton, NY

Oil on artist board Circa 1930 -1935 Signed verso and dedicated to JF (possibly John Folinsbee, fellow artist and neighbor). Overall size encased in custom 22K gold leaf frame wit...

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1930s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

“Impressionist Landscape, c. 1915-1920” California Forest American Impressionist
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By Francis Stillwell Dixon

Located in Yardley, PA

“Impressionist Landscape, c. 1915-1920” by Francis Stillwell Dixon (American, 1879-1967). One of Dixon’s finest canvases, depicting a tranquil forest scene bathed in soft, dappled l...

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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century Scottish Highland landscape oil painting of Loch Lubnaig
19th Century Scottish Highland landscape oil painting of Loch Lubnaig

19th Century Scottish Highland landscape oil painting of Loch Lubnaig

By Alfred de Breanski Sr.

Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire

Alfred de Breanski Snr British, (1852-1928) The Head of Loch Lubnaig Oil on canvas, signed & transcribed verso Image size: 23.5 inches x 35.5 inches Size including frame: 32.25 inch...

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Fine Edwardian Portrait of a Lady 1900's British Oil Painting on Canvas
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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Portrait of a Lady British School, early 1900's Circle of Samuel Luke Fildes (1843-1927) British. Bust Portrait of a Lady, Oil on canvas, 24" x 20" (61 x 50.8cm) plus gilt swept f...

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Early 20th Century Original Southern California Landscape -- Eucalyptus Grove
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Early 20th Century Original Southern California Landscape -- Eucalyptus Grove

Located in Soquel, CA

Original Oil Southern California Landscape C. 1930s -- The Eucalyptus Grove Vibrant, painterly Southern California landscape of iconic Eucalyptus trees by Andrew Boardo Lund (1877 ...

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Early 1900s Hudson River School Landscape Paintings

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Linen, Oil

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By Georges Lemmen

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

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Oil, Canvas

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Located in Sevenoaks, GB

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Fine Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Beautiful River Landscape
Fine Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Beautiful River Landscape

Fine Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Beautiful River Landscape

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

River Landscape by Charles Martin-Sauvaigo (French 1881-1970) * see notes below French Impressionist painter oil painting on wooden panel unframed size: 13 x 16 inches condition: ve...

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Oil

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Located in New Orleans, LA

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Fall in the Mountain Valley
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Fall in the Mountain Valley, 1940

$550

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Located in North Clarendon, VT

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Oil

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By Roy Henry Brown

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

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Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

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New Jersey Impressionist For Sale on 1stDibs

Surely you’ll find the exact new jersey impressionist you’re seeking on 1stDibs — we’ve got a vast assortment for sale. If you’re looking for a new jersey impressionist from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 19th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. When looking for the right new jersey impressionist 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 silver. There have been many interesting new jersey impressionist examples over the years, but those made by Hayley Lever, Anthony Michael Autorino, Benjamin Hartley, John Kilduff and Morris Hall Pancoast are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in paint, oil paint and board can add an especially memorable touch. A large new jersey impressionist can prove too dominant for some spaces — a smaller new jersey impressionist, measuring 5.5 high and 4 wide, may better suit your needs.

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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 Paintings for You

Painting is an art form that has spanned innumerable cultures, with artists using the medium to tell stories, explore and communicate ideas and express themselves. To bring abstract paintings, landscape paintings, still-life paintings and other original paintings into your home is to celebrate and share in the long tradition of this discipline.

When we look at paintings, particularly those that originated in the past, we learn about history, other cultures and countries of the world. Like every other work of art, paintings — whether they are contemporary creations or works that were made during the 19th century — can often help us clearly see and understand the world around us in a meaningful and interesting way.

Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.

Today, creating a wall of art is a wonderful way to enhance your space, showcase beautiful pieces and tie an interior design together.

No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.

Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color

On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by emerging artists and more today.