Brad Aldridge Paintings
American, b. 1965
he following is from the artist:
The spiritual resonance one senses from nature seems universal to most cultures and is a timeless belief."
Aldridge wants the viewer to feel and perhaps re-experience the moments in life when time and place fall away and the spiritual emanations of nature become more palpable.
His focus in painting is not so much articulating a specific place, rather, a specific feeling that emanates from that place. Aldridge began his artist's training at an early age. He remembers wanting to be a professional artist as early as four years of age.
Years of drawing prepared him to attend college level art classes at the University of Arkansas while still in junior high school. He began exhibiting nationally while attending the Bachelor of Fine Arts program at Brigham Young University. He began his professional career in earnest while attending the University of Arkansas's Master of Fine Arts program.
After his formal education, Aldridge moved to Utah where he now lives in a small country town with his wife and five children. When he is
not painting, he enjoys spending time with his family, gardening, and
renovating the 1884 boarding house he calls home.
His paintings are oil on panel with a subdued palette contrasted with a luminous sky. The frames are mostly designed and hand-crafted by the
artist with a specific painting or series of paintings in mind. Most are 18
karat or 22 karat gold leaf. One can visit his studio and often
find a frame and painting on the easel, both in progress.to
1
2
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
3
3
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
3
3
3
1
3
763
758
734
680
2
3
Artist: Brad Aldridge
"Farm in Spring"
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Walking down a forgotten country lane, littered with stones and broken limbs, carpeted with the new growth of spring, I am exhilarated by warm days and the end of a long winter. I’m ...
Category
2010s Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"St. Paul's Cathedral, London (view from Tate Museum)"
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Framed size: 20.5" x 45.5"
In a 12 karat gold frame
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Twilight, East River"
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Walking down a forgotten country lane, littered with stones and broken limbs, carpeted with the new growth of spring, I am exhilarated by warm days and the end of a long winter. I’m ...
Category
2010s Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Related Items
Mountain Landscape (Pyrenees) 1928
By Fritz Lindström
Located in Stockholm, SE
Fritz Lindström (1874–1962)
Mountain Landscape (Pyrenees), 1928
oil on panel
unframed 15.5 × 24 cm (6.1 × 9.4 in)
framed: 26 × 34 cm (10.2 × 13.4 in)
signed on the reverse
Frame by...
Category
1920s Realist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Originals-Magic Bell Triptych-British Awarded Artist--after Monet-impressionism
Located in London, GB
To Shizico, a triptych is a compilation of visual prayers; it embodies a meditative voyage akin to a form of meditation. For her, the repetition of motifs within the triptych serves ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$1,675
H 15.75 in W 35.44 in D 0.12 in
Light Pillar - Atmospheric Optical Phenomenon, Framed Oil Painitng
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
In this larger treatment of the light-pillar phenomenon, Aeling demonstrates his mastery of night atmospherics. The bright vertical beam—pure, white, and nearly architectural—cuts through a heavy indigo sky, reflecting the artist’s fascination with moments when the environment becomes momentarily structured by light. His winters in cold climates provided ample opportunities to see such displays, and he painted them with the same meditative intensity he applied to Hawaiian sunsets and surf. In all these subjects, Aeling returned to a central theme: the sky as an evolving organism, capable of sudden, transcendent gestures.
Jeff Aeling
Light Pillar
oil on panel
14h x 10w in
35.56h x 25.40w cm
JAE034
Jeff Aeling (1958–2025): The Sky Remembers
Through Jeff Aeling’s eyes, the landscape becomes a world shaped as much by air as by earth. In works such as North of Las Vegas, NM and Pond Near St. Cloud, MN, he balances the quiet structure of plains and wetlands with skies alive in constant motion. His mastery of atmosphere is unmistakable in Light Pillars (2023) and Light Pillar (2023), where rare optical events turn night into architecture. Even intimate scenes like Crabapple, Dogwoods, and Red Bud find their emotional power under skies that lend the land its shifting character.
Aeling’s winters in Hawaii deepened his sensitivity to movement and weather. Surfing taught him to read the rhythm of the ocean, a knowledge reflected in Wave, Kauai (2018), where a breaking wave becomes a luminous wall of force. In Volcano (2023), he channels the islands’ elemental drama, linking fire, vapor, and sky through the same atmospheric vocabulary found in his plains paintings.
Though often compared to American landscape painters like Church and Bierstadt, Aeling’s work engages modernity in subtle ways. He began his paintings with the camera—driving for hours to capture a fleeting alignment of cloud, light, and terrain. In the studio, he removed all traces of people or infrastructure, preserving the landscape as a pure, uncontrollable presence. This blend of tradition and contemporary practice allowed him to honor the past while speaking clearly to the present.
Together, these works—whether a crashing wave, a blooming tree, a volcanic plume, or a column of winter light—form a portrait of the world as Aeling experienced it: vast, luminous, and alive with change. The Sky Remembers is both a tribute and an invitation to see the land with the reverence he carried throughout his life.
Jeff Aeling
(1958-2025) Iowa City, IA
Represented in Chicago by Gallery VICTOR
Education
BFA, Painting and Printmaking, Kansas City Art Institute – Kansas City, MO
School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2016 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2015 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2014 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
2013 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2012 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2011 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2010 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Richard Demato Fine Arts Gallery - Sag Harbor, NY
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2009 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2008 Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2007 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2006 Tory Folliard Gallery - Milwaukee, WI
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2005 Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
2005 Philip Slein Gallery - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2004 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
William Havu Gallery - Denver, CO
2003 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
Lisa Kurts Gallery - Memphis, TN
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2002 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Perimeter Gallery - New York, NY
2001 J Mark Sublette Gallery - Tucson, AZ
J Mark Sublette Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
2000 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1999 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art - Kansas City, MO
1998 Charlene Cody Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
Elliot Smith Contemporary Art - St. Louis, MO
Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery - Kansas City, MO
Perimeter Gallery - Chicago, IL
1996 Grand Arts - Kansas City, MO
1994 Gallery V - Kansas City, MO
1993 Sean Kelly Gallery - Kansas City, MO
1991 Tribal Textile Gallery - Kansas City, MO
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Kiss Me, It’s Beginning to Snow, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2021
2019 Es-Scape, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
Earth Wind & Fire, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2018 Portraits and Places: Select works from Gallery Victor Armendariz, curated by Corporate Art Advisory, Metropolitan Capital Bank, Chicago, IL
Art Hamptons, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Bridgehampton, NY
Front and Center, Gallery Victor Armendariz, Chicago, IL
2004 Art Chicago, Navy Pier...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$3,000
H 14 in W 10 in
French 19th century Chickens in a landscape
By Charles-Emile Jacque
Located in Woodbury, CT
French 19th century Chickens in a landscape
Charles-Emile Jacque (23 May 1813 – 7 May 1894) was a French painter of animals (animalier) and engr...
Category
1870s Victorian Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$2,360 Sale Price
20% Off
H 13 in W 18 in
A French Barbizon Garden by Swedish Artist Carl Skånberg
Located in Stockholm, SE
Carl Skånberg (1850-1883) Sweden
A Barbizon Garden (1879)
oil on wood panel
signed C. Skånberg, dated 1879 (lower front)
unframed: 19 × 24 cm (7.5 × 9.4 inches)
framed: 40 × 45 cm ...
Category
1870s Post-Impressionist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$5,319
H 15.75 in W 17.72 in
Hillside Trails
By Dan Schultz
Located in Pasadena, CA
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Signed "Dan Schultz" on lower right
UNFRAMED: 9" x 12" FRAMED: 12.25" x 15.25' x 1.125"
Category
2010s Impressionist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
Original Diptych-British Awarded Artist-Impasto, oil-Jardin d'Hiver Series
Located in London, GB
Jardin d'Hiver Series is Shizico Yi's latest collection, created in her winter studio while longing for the summer left behind. Reflecting on the vibrant days spent painting en plein...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$1,396
H 15.75 in W 23.63 in D 0.6 in
Original-Impasto-Jardin d'Hiver Series-Dahlias-British Awarded Artist-oil canvas
Located in London, GB
Jardin d'Hiver Series is Shizico Yi's latest collection, created in her winter studio while longing for the summer left behind. Reflecting on the vibrant days spent painting en plein...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
$803
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 0.6 in
Untitled (Snow-capped Mountains) – Grand Teton National Park, c. 1930s
By Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Consigned to the gallery by private collectors
Signed "Marion Kavanagh Wachtel" lower right
Description
Marion Kavanagh was a pupil of William Keith in San Francisco who, upon learning of her move to Southern California, urged her to contact Pasadena artist Elmer Wachtel. A romance blossomed and the two were married in 1904. During their marriage, out of respect for her husband, Marion Wachtel painted in watercolor, giving Elmer Wachtel the honor of painting in the more “serious” medium of oil. After the untimely passing of her husband and a period of grieving, Marion took up oil painting in 1930, working both en plein air and in the studio. This masterful plein air painting is a poetic interpretation of the snow-capped mountains in Grand Teton National Park...
Category
1930s Impressionist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$21,000
H 20.75 in W 24.5 in
View of a Venetian Harbor oil painting on wood panel 2Oth C
Located in Gavere, BE
View of a Venetian Harbor oil painting on wood panel 2Oth C
Additional information about the work:
Title: View of a Venetian Harbor
Medium: oil on wooden panel
Signature: not sign...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,741 Sale Price
20% Off
H 11.82 in W 7.88 in
Afternoon Glow, Cathedral Cove, Anacapa Island
By Peter Adams
Located in Pasadena, CA
Provenance
Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist
Signed "Peter Adams" on lower right
Description
This plein air oil painting depicts the uniqueness of Anacapa Island in the chain of Southern California’s Channel Islands archipelago. Anacapa was formed by volcanic eruptions. Its desolate landscape is dominated by a distinct geology of steep precipices and jagged rock formations. From this elevated viewpoint, Adams portrays the location known as Cathedral Cove with its outcropping spires and massive kelp beds that hug the shoreline. The peak of the middle island of Anacapa is visible in the distance, and further out to sea is Santa Cruz Island...
Category
2010s Realist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel, Linen
Enfants à la plage Oil Painting on Wood Panel, Signed, Circa 1865-1875
Located in Stockholm, SE
Albert Roosenboom was a Belgian genre painter celebrated for his elegant depictions of everyday life in the mid to late 19th century. A pupil of the renowned Constantin Meunier, Roos...
Category
1870s Romantic Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$19,500
H 20.87 in W 16.93 in
Previously Available Items
"Tropical Twilight"
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Walking down a forgotten country lane, littered with stones and broken limbs, carpeted with the new growth of spring, I am exhilarated by warm days and the end of a long winter. I’m ...
Category
2010s Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Dawn"
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Brad Aldridge creates pastoral landscapes that evoke an Arcadian calm. His paintings conjure 19th century Romanticism and tonalism while employing somewhat loose 20th century brushst...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"The City at Dusk, New York City"
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Framed size: 40" x 90"
In a 22 karat gold frame
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Heartland"
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
This piece is five paintings stitched into one long landscape.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brad Aldridge Paintings
A Far-Off Country
By Brad Aldridge
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
A landscape painting filled with lush greenery and a winding river.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Brad Aldridge Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Brad Aldridge paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Brad Aldridge paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Brad Aldridge in oil paint, paint, panel and more. Not every interior allows for large Brad Aldridge paintings, so small editions measuring 9 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Eric Harrison, Anita Mazzucca, and Leslie Parke. Brad Aldridge paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,775 and tops out at $24,000, while the average work can sell for $14,500.