$24,000
Early Texas Impressionist Country Landscape Painting of Bluebonnet Flowers
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in Houston, TX
Early Texas Impressionist country landscape painting by Porfirio Salinas. The work features a field of bluebonnets in full bloom accented by a few trees.
Canvas, Oil
"Bluebonnet Creek" Texas Hill Country 1957 39 x 49 Framed!!!
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"RED BARN RANCH" 1959 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LANDSCAPE WILDFLOWERS PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"Evening Sunset" Early Texas Impressionist Country Landscape Painting
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in Houston, TX
Salinas dedicated himself to painting landscapes of Central Texas with particular attention to the bluebonnets that grow in abundance in the springtime.
Canvas, Oil
"Sleeping Lady Mountain" Image 12 x 16 Frame: 19 x 23
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
Bluebonnets of Texas
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in New York, NY
It is a simple but beautiful view, and it is no surprise that Salinas was treasured for his bluebonnet paintings.
Oil, Board
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H 32 in W 38 in
"Bluebonnets In The Hill Country" Texas Hill Country Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas "Bluebonnets In The Hills" (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 30 Frame Size: 32 x 38 Medium: Oil Dated 1960 "Bluebonnets In The Hills" Porfirio Salin...
Oil
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H 22 in W 27 in D 5 in
" BLUEBONNETS " NORTH OF SAN ANTONIO TEXAS. TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 24 in W 28 in D 3 in
“ BLUEBONNETS” RED GATE RANCH IN TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 33 in W 45 in D 3 in
"Hill Country Bluebonnets" Texas Bluebonnet The State Flower of Texas
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas Medium: Oil "Bluebonnet" (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 33 x 45 Medium: Oil "Bluebonnet" Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist...
Oil
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H 33 in W 45 in D 3 in
"Hill Country Bluebonnets" Texas Ranch Bluebonnet The State Flower of Texas
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 32 x 43.5 Medium: Oil Dated 1971 "Bluebonnets" Medium: Oil "Bluebonnet" Porfirio Salinas was a self-t...
Oil
Spring Pastoral Landscape w/ Bluebonnets
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in Austin, TX
"Spring Pastoral Landscape w/ Bluebonnets" Artist: Porfirio Salinas Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 11" x 9" (not including frame) A prime example of Porfirio Salina's landscapes that c...
Canvas, Oil
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H 35 in W 41 in D 3 in
"Bluebonnet Time Hill Country Frame Size: 35 x 41 Bluebonnets, Poppies, Oak Tree
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 18 in W 22 in D 3 in
" BLUEBONNET BALLET " TEXAS HILL COUNTRY WILDFLOWERS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 22 in W 27 in
"Bluebonnet" Texas State Flower with Cactus Very Early
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 20 in W 16 in D 2 in
"BULLFIGHTER" MATADOR MEXICO MEXICAN CIRCA 1950s PORFIRIO SALINAS ARTIST
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 27 in W 31 in D 4 in
" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BLUEBONNETS AND PAINT BRUSH " SPRING COLORS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas Texas Hill Country Bluebonnets and Indian Paint Brush.
Oil
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H 14 in W 16 in D 3 in
"Bluebonnets in Black Eyed Susans" Texas Hill Country Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 30 in W 26 in D 2 in
"SILVERIO" THE BULLFIGHTER / MATADOR MEXICO MEXICAN BY PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 30 in W 33 in D 5 in
"The Old Homestead" Texas Landscape by Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973)
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
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H 28 in W 32 in D 4 in
"King of the Hill" Texas Bluebonnets in the Hill Country
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas "King of the Hill" Texas Bluebonnets (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 20 x 24 "King of the Hill" Texas Bluebonnets Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught a...
Oil
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H 20 in W 24 in D 3 in
"PATH THROUGH BLUE " TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BLUEBONNET WILDFLOWERS DATED 1930
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 24 in W 30 in
"CACTUS COUNTRY" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. BLOOMING PRICKLY PEAR PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 40 in W 50 in D 3 in
"BLUEBONNET" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY WILDFLOWER LANDSCAPE PUBLISHED PIECE 30 x 40
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 30 in W 26 in D 2 in
"MANOLETE" THE MOST FAMOUS BULLFIGHTER MEXICO SPAIN MATADOR PORFIRIO SALINAS ART
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 25 in W 30 in D 3 in
"MONUMENT VALLEY" LATE 1930s RAREST SUBJECT EVER BY PORFIRIO SALINAS!! DESERT
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 22 in W 26 in D 4 in
"Irish Flats" San Antonio Texas. Extremely difficult subject to find by Salinas
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 36 in W 41 in
"Blue Ridge" Texas Hill Country Wildflowers Bluebonnets 36 x 41 Framed
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 36 in W 41 in
"BIG OAK BLUES" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BLUEBONNETS 24 X 36 1957
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 24 in W 28 in
"Bluebonnets & Paintbrush" Texas Hill Country Image: 16x20 Frame: 24 x 28
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 25 in W 30 in
"SPRING CREEK" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY. CANVAS 25 X 30 DATED 1951 PORFIRIO SALINAS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 36 in W 41 in
"PRICKLY PEAR IN BLUE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY BLUEBONNETS CACTUS 34 x 46 FRAMED
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 32 in W 42 in D 4 in
" HILL COUNTRY BLUE " TEXAS HILL COUNTRY LANDSCAPE PAINTING
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 20 x 30 Frame Size: 32 x 42 Medium: Oil Late 1930s Early 1940s "Hill Country Blue" Bluebonnet "Bluebonnets" Has original...
Oil
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H 31 in W 36 in D 3 in
"Texas Hill Country Stream" Meandering through Texas Ranches
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 38 in W 44 in D 3 in
"Guadalupe River" Beautiful Rock formations on the Gaudalupe River. Texas
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"Granite Shoals Country" Colorado River
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 38 in W 44 in D 3 in
"Guadalupe River" Beautiful Rock formations on the Gaudalupe River. Texas
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 42 in W 52 in D 6 in
"Early Autumn Texas" Texas Hill Country Circa 1930s
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 27 in W 30 in D 3 in
"MOUNTAIN SHACKS" WEST TEXAS OR POSSIBLY MEXICO
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"VERBENA & COREOPSIS" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY WILDFLOWERS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 24 in W 29 in D 3 in
"BULLFIGHT SCENE" "EL CORDOBES" SPANISH BULLFIGHTER SPAIN
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY " FALL COLORS
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 18 in W 22 in D 3 in
"BLANCO RIVER NEAR WIMBERLEY" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 31 in W 43 in D 3 in
"Hill Country Ranch" Hereford Cattle Ranch Texas Windmill Ranch House Barn
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 32 in W 38 in D 4 in
"Verbena Ranch" Texas Verbena Wildflowers in the Hill Country
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 28 in W 32 in D 4 in
"Blooming Prickly Pear Cactus" Texas Hill Country Landscape
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 42 in W 52 in D 6 in
"Coreopsis & Cactus" Texas Hill Country Large Landscape Painting
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
" Guadalupe Bend " Texas Hill Country Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 15 in W 18 in D 3 in
" Hill Country Waters " Texas Hill Country Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 23 in W 27 in D 6 in
"Fall in Texas" Texas Hill Country Landscape River Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 23 in W 27 in D 6 in
"Coreopsis & Poppies" Texas Hill Country Landscape
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 23 in W 27 in D 6 in
"Snow Scene" Texas Hill Country Landscape River Rare Winter Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 23 in W 27 in D 6 in
"Coreopsis & Verbena" Texas Hill Country Landscape Painting
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"AUTUMN LANDSCAPE" 1936 TEXAS HILL COUNTRY PAINTING
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"Bullfighter"
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 42 in W 52 in D 6 in
"Autumn in the Texas Hill Country" Texas Hill Country Large Landscape Painting
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 14 in W 16 in D 3 in
"Misty Morning Stock Tank" Texas Hill Country Ranch Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
"Ranch Road" Texas Hill Country Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 18 in W 22.5 in D 3 in
"TEXAS HILLS AND VALLEYS" HILLCOUNTRY
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 34 in W 49 in D 5 in
" The Huisache Trail " Texas Hill Country Scene
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 18 in W 22 in D 4 in
" Hill Country Blooms " SPRING COLORS blooming Prickly Pear Cacut Texas Hills
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
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H 20 in W 24 in D 3 in
"CONTENTIOUS ENCOUNTER" BULL FIGHT SCENE DATE 1952
By Porfirio Salinas
Located in San Antonio, TX
Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets".
Oil
$107,256
H 13.5 in W 20.5 in
Looking across Buttermere, Victorian 19th Century Oil Landscape
By John Atkinson Grimshaw
Located in London, GB
John Atkinson Grimshaw 1836 - 1893 Looking across Buttermere Oil on canvas, signed & dated '1868' lower right Image size: 13 ½ x 20 ½ inches (34.2 x 50.5 cm) Hand made gilt frame Th...
Oil
$3,723
H 12.41 in W 14.57 in
Impressionist Paris Landscape, Seine and Eiffel Tower – Pehr Eklund
Located in Stockholm, SE
signed and dated oil on panel unframed 21 × 27 cm (8.3 × 10.6 in) framed 31.5 × 37 cm (12.4 × 14.6 in) Exhibited: Lunds Universitets Konstmuseum, Pehr Eklund Exhibition, 2–21 Februa...
Oil, Wood Panel
"Sunday in the Park, 1910"
By Cyprien Eugène Boulet
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Signed Lower Right Cyprien-Eugène Boulet (1877 - 1927)
Canvas, Oil
$3,200
H 17.25 in W 14.5 in
The Tulip Poplar on Salem Pike, Impressionist Tree Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
Glen Tracy (American, 1883-1956) The Tulip Poplar on Salem Pike , 1920 Oil on board Signed lower left, dated and titled verso 12 x 9 inches 17.25 x 14.5 inches framed Since he studi...
Oil
$64,722
H 22 in W 28.5 in
Dans les champs - Neo Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Leo Marie Gausson
By Léo Gausson
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated neo-impressionist landscape oil on canvas by French painter Leo Marie Gausson. Gausson painted this picturesque view of then fields above Triel-sur-Seine, a small to...
Canvas, Oil
The Opal Pool - Coast of Catalina, Spain
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
A very rare and exceptional work by one of America's most versatile and interesting American Impressionists. This was done on an early trip the artist made to Spain. The artist live...
Oil, Board
La Carmencita by John Singer Sargent
By John Singer Sargent
Located in New Orleans, LA
John Singer Sargent 1856-1925 American Stamped by artist's estate (en verso) Oil on canvas John Singer Sargent, widely regarded as one of history's most distinguished portraitists...
Canvas, Oil
Mid 18th Century Antique Brown Floral English Axminster Rug, 1760
Located in New York, NY
Antique Brown Floral English Axminster Rug Made in Axminster, Devon, Great Britain, circa 1760 (George III) Provenance: Baron Guy de Rothschild 29' 10" x 17' 11" (909.32 x 546.10 cm)
Wool
$1,055
H 26.78 in W 35.44 in D 0.79 in
Landscape Painting of the Ardennes by Michel Nizet, Liège School, 1930
Located in OOSTERHOUT, NL
A highly decorative and characterful painting by Michel Nizet, painted in 1930 in the typical style of the Liège School. This oil on canvas depicts an atmospheric Ardennes landscape ...
Paint
$240,000
H 48 in W 32 in
The Young Shepherdess: Late 19th Century Academic Oil Painting
By Charles Amable Lenoir
Located in New York, NY
The Young Shepherdess by Charles Amable Lenoir (1860-1926) Oil on canvas 48 x 32 inches unframed (121.92 x 81.28 cm.) 58 ½ x 42 ¾ inches framed (148.59 x 108.585 cm) Signed on botto...
Oil
$3,000
H 30 in W 40 in D 1.13 in
American Impressionist Painting of Women Standing in an Open Field Landscape
By André Gisson
Located in Houston, TX
Early American Impressionist oil on canvas painting by New York born artist André Gisson. The work features a group of three women standing in an open field. The loose brushwork give...
Oil, Canvas
The White Peacock
By Jessie Arms Botke
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jessie Arms Botke. "The White Peacock" is a wildlife impressionist painting, oil on canvas in a palette of whites, blues, and browns by female, American artist Jessie A...
Canvas, Oil
$6,500
H 22.25 in W 28.25 in D 2 in
“October Morning Matunuck" c. 1925 by Frank Convers Mathewson Rhode Island Oil
Located in Yardley, PA
About this work: “Birches and Huckleberry, October Morning Matunuck" c. 1925 by Frank Convers Mathewson (American, 1862-1941). A stunningly beautiful autumn view of Matunuck, Rhode ...
Oil, Board
"Solebury Spring"
By John Fulton Folinsbee
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by John Fulton Folinsbee (1892 - 1972). One of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John...
Canvas, Oil
$6,000Sale Price|20% Off
H 21.5 in W 25 in D 2 in
Impressionist William Chadwick British/American Landscape with Trees Old Lyme Ct
By William Chadwick
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Landscape with Trees Oil/Canvas 12 x 16 unframed, 21.5 x 25 framed signed LL Painting is in good condition, signed bottom left margin with craquelure in the clouds as shown. Housed ...
Oil
$2,047
H 14.18 in W 18.9 in
Wooded River Landscape - Early 20th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautful early 20th century French imprressionist oil on panel depicting a wooded river landsape with a wonderful dappled light. The work is superbly executed, very atmospheric an...
Oil, Panel
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.