Vernon Nye
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Gouache, Board
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
Early 2000s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Watercolor, Laid Paper
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Gouache, Paper
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Watercolor, Paper
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Laid Paper
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil, Canvas
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Gouache, Board, Laid Paper, Varnish
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Oil
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil
1970s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
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1980s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
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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 landscape-drawings-watercolors for You
Landscape drawings and watercolors show the world through the lenses of different cultures and perspectives. They were also incredibly important for displaying natural scenes before the invention of photography.
There are many ways to effectively arrange art on your walls so that you’re maximizing your wall space. You can introduce peace and serenity within the confines of a living room or bedroom if landscape drawings and watercolors are part of the art that you choose to bring into a space.
Watercolor landscapes have a rich history dating back to ancient China, where they dominated painting genres by the late Tang dynasty. Ink-on-silk paintings in China featured mountains and large bodies of water as far back as the third century. The Netherlands was home to landscapes as a major theme in painting as early as the 1500s, and by the Renaissance, watercolors had made their way to the West and into European culture, becoming a staple of decorative art.
It wasn’t until the Industrial Revolution that watercolor paints became more widely available and embedded in fine arts. Despite their broad distribution today, some artists have chosen to revive the old craft of preparing their own watercolor pigments, paying homage to the medium’s roots.
The variety of brush combinations and painting methods makes watercolor landscapes some of the most stunning pieces in any collection. Find landscape drawings and watercolors on 1stDibs.