59th Street Bridge, Pennsylvania Impressionist Watercolor Cityscape
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
Walter Emerson Baum (Sellersville, Pennsylvania, 1884 - 1956) is the only New Hope Impressionists actually born in Bucks County.
Watercolor, Archival Paper
George A Newman Pennsylvania Impressionist
Located in San Francisco, CA
George A Newman: 1875-1965. Well listed Pennsylvania artist with auction records over $3000. He studied at PAFA. This piece is oil on canvas with 3 small tears that could be easily ...
Oil
The Blue Bed, Environmental Portrait by Pennsylvania Impressionist
Located in Doylestown, PA
The Blue Bed is an interior, environmental portrait by living artist and Pennsylvania Impressionist, Glenn Harrington. The oil on board painting is 8" x 14" in size, framed, dated, a...
Oil, Board
"Manayunk" Walter Emerson Baum, Pennsylvania Impressionist Landscape of Manayunk
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in New York, NY
A painter, critic, author, and educator, he was the only one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists to be born and raised in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Oil, Board
Lumberville in Winter, Pennsylvania Impressionist Snow Landscape
By Laurence A. Campbell
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Lumberville in Winter" is a 14 x 20 inches winter landscape by American Impressionist painter, Laurence A. Campbell. This regional, Pennsylvania scene is an excellent example of the...
Oil, Board
$1,180Sale Price|20% Off
Antique American Pennsylvania Impressionist Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape painting. Nicely painted and in excellent condition. Housed in a valuable hand carved silver frame. Signed illegibly. Oil on board. Meas...
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Pennsylvania Impressionist Framed Landscape Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare antique oil painting by Charles W. Patterson (1870 - 1938) . Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Measuring 29 x 33 inches overall, 22 x 27 inches image size. Nicely framed.
Canvas, Oil
The Quarry, Autumn
By Roy Cleveland Nuse
Located in New York, NY
Roy Cleveland Nuse was a Pennsylvania Impressionist artist and a teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Oil
$2,650
Women Seated in Garden "Femmos Restant" New Hope Pennsylvania Artist Edna Gass
By Edna Gass
Located in Soquel, CA
The New Hope School of Pennsylvania Impressionists is an artistic movement that flourished in the early 20th century in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and was known for its depictions of th...
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
$42,705Sale Price|35% Off
"The Three B's of Music" Beethoven, Bach, & Brahms, An Extremely Rare Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Today, having a Harer frame on a Pennsylvania Impressionist painting adds significantly to its value.
Oil, Canvas
Gladioli
By Samuel George Phillips
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Thomas C. Folk, The Pennsylvania Impressionists, pp. 31 and 102
Canvas, Oil, Board
Shad Fisherman
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
In fact, it could be argued that Folinsbee’s approach to painting was closer to the artists of the Ashcan School than to such other Pennsylvania Impressionists as William Langson Lat...
Canvas, Oil
Spring Landscape
By John Wells James
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
The subject is rendered in the loose style of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, using bold swirling brushstrokes with thick dabs of paint.
Canvas, Oil
"Maria" Portrait of a Girl New Hope Pennsylvania Artist Edna Gass
By Edna Gass
Located in Soquel, CA
The New Hope School of Pennsylvania Impressionists is an artistic movement that flourished in the early 20th century in New Hope, Pennsylvania, and was known for its depictions of th...
Oil, Illustration Board, Monotype
"Morning Chat" Impressionist Pastoral Landscape Oil Painting in Pennsylvania
By Christopher Willett 1
Located in New York, NY
A charming Impressionist summer pastoral scene depicting homes in in Bucks County, Pennsylvania,.
Oil, Board
Antique American Impressionist Nicely Framed Pennsylvania Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting by Frances M. Lichten (1889 - 1961). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 26 inches overall, and 16 by 18 painting alo...
Oil, Board
Untitled (Pastel #3)
By John Pierce Barnes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Consequently, his body of work is small compared to many of the other Pennsylvania Impressionists working around him. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia held a retrospective exh...
Pastel
Untitled (Pastel #25), Pastel of Artist at Work
By John Pierce Barnes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Consequently, his body of work is small compared to many of the other Pennsylvania impressionists working around him. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia held a retrospective exh...
Pastel
Troubled Water
By John Pierce Barnes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Consequently, his body of work is small compared to many of the other Pennsylvania impressionists working around him. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia held a retrospective exh...
Oil, Board
Stillness
By John Pierce Barnes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Consequently, his body of work is small compared to many of the other Pennsylvania impressionists working around him. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia held a retrospective exh...
Oil, Board
American Impressionist Landscape - Listed Pennsylvania artist Ira Deen, ca 1930s
Located in Baltimore, MD
A dramatic landscape by well-listed Pennsylvania artist Ira Deen. This is one of the largest and most lively of his works that I have ever seen.
Oil
Untitled Pastel #19, Pastel on Sandpaper, Circa 1920-30, Framed
By John Pierce Barnes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Consequently, his body of work is small compared to many of the other Pennsylvania impressionists working around him. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia held a retrospective exh...
Paper, Pastel
Untitled (Pastel #1)
By John Pierce Barnes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Consequently, his body of work is small compared to many of the other Pennsylvania impressionists working around him. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia held a retrospective exh...
Pastel, Paper
Pennsylvania Farm
By Marion Butler Ewald
Located in North Clarendon, VT
A beautiful Pennsylvania Farm painted by Marion Butler Ewald. Strong, bright and bold.
Oil
Untitled (Pastel #2), Pastel with Ducks
By John Pierce Barnes
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Consequently, his body of work is small compared to many of the other Pennsylvania impressionists working around him. The Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia held a retrospective exh...
Pastel
$8,000
"Pennsylvania Snow" - Impressionist Winter Landscape, Acrylic Painting on Linen
By Brian Sindler
Located in Denver, CO
"Pennsylvania Snow" is a beautiful acrylic painting on linen, depicting a dense eastern forest laden with fresh snow, as the early morning light casts in dimly from the horizon. Thi...
Linen, Acrylic
"Beyond the Delaware"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"New House Near Hartsville"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Church Street"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Oil, Canvas
"Pine Grove Near Pipersville"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Buckingham Sunrise"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"The Gathering"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Under the Willow"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Oil, Canvas
"Buttonwood Inn"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Oil, Canvas
"Little House, Lambertville, NJ"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Oil, Canvas
"Furlong in Spring"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Guests"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"None Such Days"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Admiring the Crops"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Under Blossoming Tree, Lahaska"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Snow Near Trenton, Sunrise"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Cottage in Lahaska"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Flowers"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Shadows"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"House, Lahaska"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Road to the River"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Summer Picnic"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
Courtyard at Noon
By Robert Spencer
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
He was at once a Pennsylvania Impressionist landscape painter but also in many ways a Realist.
Canvas, Oil
"Group of Old Houses, Buckingham"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"New Hope Gothic"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Holicong Garden"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
$16,875
"Local Gossip"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Edge of the Village"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Sunrise, Old Farm, Rushland"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Flood on the Delaware"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Two Bouquets"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Morning at the Market, Lasaska"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Stream, Southhampton"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Pine Grove Near Pipersville"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
"Farm House, Solebury"
By Joseph Barrett
Located in Lambertville, NJ
It is here that the Pennsylvania Impressionist tradition is still being carried on.
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 17 in W 19.5 in D 2 in
William Lathrop, Fisherman's Home, Oil on Canvas, Signed
By William Langson Lathrop
Located in Doylestown, PA
William Lathrop, (New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1859 - 1938), founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the lat...
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 18 in W 24 in D 1.5 in
Walter Baum, Sellersville, PA, Oil on Board, Signed
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956), born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, is the only New Hope Impressionists actually born in Bucks County.
Oil, Board
Unavailable
H 20 in W 24 in D 1.5 in
Walter Baum, Lehigh County, Oil on Board, Signed
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956), born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, is the only New Hope Impressionists actually born in Bucks County.
Oil, Board
Unavailable
H 22 in W 26 in D 1.5 in
Walter Baum, Sellersville - Trumbauersville Road, Oil on Canvas, Signed
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Trumbauersville Road near Sellersville PA" by Walter Emerson Baum is a 16" x 20" oil on canvas, Pennsylvania Impressionist, landscape/townscape painting.
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 22 in W 26 in D 1.5 in
Walter Baum, Easton - Trumbauersville Road, Oil on Canvas, Signed
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Easton, Trumbauersville Road" by Walter Emerson Baum is a 16" x 20" oil on canvas, Pennsylvania Impressionist, landscape/townscape painting.
Canvas, Oil
A Distant Shower
By William Langson Lathrop
Located in East Hampton, NY
Founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, Lathrop (b. 1859) was known as one of America's premier landscape painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Canvas, Oil
Unavailable
H 33 in W 38 in D 2 in
S George Phillips, Research Center Maine, 1930's, Oil on Board
By Samuel George Phillips
Located in Doylestown, PA
A magazine illustrator early in his career for McCalls and Ladies Home Journal, Samuel George Phillips (1890 - 1965) later devoted himself to portraiture and landscape painting as p...
Oil, Board
Unavailable
H 35 in W 42 in D 2 in
S George Phillips, Delaware Water Gap, 1930's, Oil on Canvas
By Samuel George Phillips
Located in Doylestown, PA
A magazine illustrator early in his career for McCalls and Ladies Home Journal, Samuel George Phillips (1890 - 1965) later devoted himself to portraiture and landscape painting as p...
Oil, Canvas
Water and Ice
By Paul Bernard King
Located in Lawrence, NY
Frederick Harer was a leading frame maker, particularly for the Pennsylvania Impressionists. His frames are rare and are collectible objects in and of themselves.
Oil
Crucifixion
By Robert Spencer
Located in Graton, CA
For the next 25 years Spencer lived and worked in Bucks County, becoming one of the most prominent members of the Pennsylvania Impressionist art colony. He suffered several nervous b...
Oil
Rowing at Dawn
By Leonard Mizerek
Located in Stonington, CT
Leonard Mizerek, Fellow, ASMA, nurtured his artistic love of nature while growing up and painting in the Brandywine Valley and countryside of nearby Pennsylvania. His early influenc...
Oil
Southport Harbor at Sunset
By Leonard Mizerek
Located in Stonington, CT
Artist Leonard Mizerek, Fellow, ASMA, nurtured his artistic love of nature while growing up and painting in the Brandywine Valley and countryside of nearby Pennsylvania. His early i...
Oil
Sunset Sail in the Harbor, Greenwich, CT
By Leonard Mizerek
Located in Stonington, CT
Leonard Mizerek, Fellow, ASMA, nurtured his artistic love of nature while growing up and painting in the Brandywine Valley and countryside of nearby Pennsylvania. His early influenc...
Oil
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H 39 in W 47 in D 3 in
Manayunk Autumn, Pennsylvania Impressionist Cityscape
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Manayunk Autumn" is a 32" x 40" oil on canvas cityscape of Manayunk, a suburb of Philadelphia, by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Emerson Baum.
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 33 in W 41 in D 2 in
Brooklyn Bridge, Pennsylvania Impressionist Watercolor Cityscape
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
Walter Emerson Baum (Sellersville, Pennsylvania, 1884 - 1956) is the only New Hope Impressionists actually born in Bucks County.
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sold
H 33 in W 38 in D 2 in
Crystal Bar, Interior American Regional Scene by Pennsylvania Impressionist
By Paulette Victorine J. Van Roekens
Located in Doylestown, PA
This unusual urban, interior scene by the Pennsylvania Impressionist painter is a treasure available for collectors for the first time ever.
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 39.5 in W 47.5 in D 2 in
Bethlehem Houses, Pennsylvania Impressionist Snowy Winter Landscape
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
Walter Emerson Baum (Sellersville, Pennsylvania, 1884 - 1956) is the only New Hope Impressionists actually born in Bucks County.
Canvas, Oil
Sold
H 6.75 in W 8.5 in D 1.5 in
Winter Village, Pennsylvania Impressionist Snowy Landscape, Miniature Painting
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Winter Village" is a 4" x 6" miniature oil on board winter landscape in Bucks County, by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Emerson Baum.
Oil, Board
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H 38 in W 46 in D 2 in
Bucks County Farmhouse, Hagersville, Pennsylvania Impressionist Snow Landscape
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Bucks County Farmhouse, Hagersville, Pa" is a 32" x 40" oil on canvas winter landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Emerson Baum.
Oil, Canvas
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H 18 in W 22 in
Sellersville, Pennsylvania Impressionist Autumn Landscape, Bucks County Scene
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Sellersville, PA" is a 12" x 16" oil on board winter/autumn landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Baum.
Oil, Board
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H 34 in W 59 in D 4 in
Manayunk Houses, Regional American Cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist
By Giovanni Martino
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Manayunk Houses" is a 25 x 50 inches, oil on canvas, regional, American cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter Giovanni Martino.
Canvas, Oil
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H 38 in W 50 in D 1.5 in
New Hope Canal, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Impressionist, Regional Landscape
By Laurence A. Campbell
Located in Doylestown, PA
This painting is a warm toned, serene depiction of the canal in New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania with a mule drawn barge. New Hope is a small Delaware River town, home to the his...
Canvas, Oil
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H 25 in W 29 in D 1.75 in
South Perkasie PA, Regional Pennsylvania Impressionist Winter Snow Landscape
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"South Perkasie PA" is a 16" x 20" oil on canvas, snowy winter landscape in Bucks County, by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Emerson Baum.
Canvas, Oil
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H 17 in W 21 in D 1.5 in
Two Red Barns, Pennsylvania Impressionist Winter Landscape, Bucks County
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Two Red Barns" is a 12" x 16" oil on board winter landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Baum.
Oil, Board
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H 19.5 in W 23.5 in
View of Sellersville, Pennsylvania Impressionist Winter Landscape, Bucks County
By Walter Emerson Baum
Located in Doylestown, PA
"View of Sellersville" is a 16" x 20" oil on board winter landscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist and New Hope School painter Walter Baum.
Oil, Board
Sold
H 20 in W 16 in D 1 in
Two Schooners, Pencil on Paper Drawing, Pennsylvania Impressionist Artist
By William Langson Lathrop
Located in Doylestown, PA
Please excuse any reflections visible in the glass of the images. (New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1859 - 1938) Founder of the New Hope Pennsylvania Impressionist Colony, Lathrop was known...
Archival Paper, Pencil
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H 23 in W 21 in D 3 in
Original Handcrafted Wood Frame with Mirror by Pennsylvania Impressionist
By Ben Badura
Located in Doylestown, PA
Original handcrafted wood frame by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter and frame maker, 23 x 21 inches overall size, aluminum leaf over wood.
Wood, Mirror
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H 30 in W 36 in D 1.5 in
View of Lambertville, NJ, Pennsylvania Impressionist Landscape by Delaware River
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Doylestown, PA
"View of Lambertville, NJ" is a 18" x 24" Oil on Paper landscape by American Impressionist painter John Folinsbee. The painting is set along the Delaware River, celebrating the vista...
Paper, 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.