Joan Parker is a plein air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were discovered early, and she received multiple scholarships and awards at a young age. Parker’s keen eye for design first took her to Paris to study hair and fashion and allowed her to own a highly successful, upscale salon and fashion consulting business in California. When the world of fine art beckoned her, she added work as a freelance artist to her already busy schedule as a business owner. With her interest piqued in a career as a painter, Joan received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. During Parker’s work as a freelance artist, she had the opportunity to use her skills in the motion picture industry. This included creating conceptual designs and freehand illustrations for computerized puppets and “angels wings,” in the movie “Michael,” with John Travolta, and producing five classic 18th Century style paintings in varying degrees of completeness, for the movie “Sara.” Parker moved to the Kansas City area in 1996, when Hallmark Cards recruited her to create original greeting card artwork. Six years later, she left Hallmark to pursue painting, specifically Plein Air full time. Parker has been instrumental in establishing Plein Air painting events in both Missouri and Kansas. “Because the prairie is very stark, paintings of it tend to convey an abstracted feel of color and light,” said Parker concerning her work. “They’re a middle ground between landscape and contemporary abstraction.” Parker is represented in galleries from St. Louis to California. She has participated in twenty-six group exhibitions, national juried shows, and several one-woman shows. Joan holds seasonal Plein Air painting workshops throughout the Midwest. She has a passion for the immediacy of painting outdoors and enjoys sharing her love of Plein Air with others; bringing this post-Impressionist movement, known for its beautiful outdoors (or Plein Air) scenery, to the public.
$2,500
Straw Fields
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Straw Fields" Oil on Canvas Canvas Size: 10 x 20 inches Framed Size: 21 x 31 inches Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California....
Canvas, Oil
$2,300
Homestead
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Homestead" Oil on Canvas 11 x 14 inches 13 x 16 framed Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were...
Canvas, Oil
Sunflower State of Mind
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Sunflower State of Mind" Oil on Canvas 10 x 20 Framed Size: 21 x 31 inches Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her arti...
Canvas, Oil
$1,200
H 17 in W 13 in D 1.25 in
"View of the Empire State NYC in Snow" Impressionistic Ashcan School Style
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
An impressionistic depiction of a figure in the snow with cars and buildings in the busy City Streets. The Empire State Building is portrayed in the background as the snow filled str...
Canvas, Oil, Board
$850
H 6 in W 8 in D 1.5 in
Duomo at Sunset, Impressionism , Landscape, Framed, Plein Aire, Italy, Oil
By Virginia Vaughan
Located in Houston, TX
Duomo at Sunset at Piazelle Michelangelo, Florence is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collection of recent travels in Italy and France. V....Vaughan painted each of these on location "en plein air" It has an Impressionistic Style as seen in many of Virginia Vaughan's paintings. The Piazzale Michelangelo...
Canvas, Oil
$2,750
H 20.75 in W 24.75 in D 1 in
"Spring Time" Colorful Countryside Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
By Robert Waltsak
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape with beautiful color tones throughout. Waltsak has portrayed this piece in a most intimate yet energetic way and has packed much feeling ...
Oil, Canvas
"Cove" Oil Painting
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Cove" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts bright teal colored cove where water meets the shore and the atmospheric pastel sky reflects in the b...
Oil, Canvas
$4,200
H 24 in W 36 in D 1 in
Spring Cove Texas Landscape American Impressionism 24" x 36" Lake Conroe
By Steve Parker
Located in Houston, TX
Framed 26.5" x 37.5 " Spring Cove is an impressionist landscape painting that was painted on Lake Cone located in Montgomery, Texas. Early Spring Cove is a contemporary oil landsc...
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Gloucester Boats
By Florence Prince Ewing
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
In Gloucester Boats, Florence Prince Ewing captures the character and rhythm of New England’s working waterfront. The composition centers on two fishing vessels tied to a weathered d...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 24 in W 30 in D 1.5 in
Bayou Reflections II Texas Landscape Oil Impressionism
By Steve Parker
Located in Houston, TX
FREE SHIPPING Bayou Reflections II is contemporary oil landscape painting on canvas 24 x 30. Bayou Reflections II was painted in 202...
Canvas, Oil
$4,250
H 20.5 in W 24.5 in D 1 in
"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Pond and Hills Oil on canvas board 1930s
By Clyde Eugene Scott
Located in Soquel, CA
"Ole Swimmin Hole" Southern California Oil on canvas board 1930s Elegant mid century landscape depicting a lake and hillside in summer by well known and collected California artist ...
Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board
$850
H 19.5 in W 23.5 in D 2 in
"Hatteras" Lighthouse, North Carolina - Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Rowboat near Hatteras Lighthouse by Nelson Gwinn, Jr. (American, 1927 - 1994). Signed and dated "Nelson Gwinn, Jr. 9/68" in the lower right corner. Title and artist info on verso. Pr...
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
"The Inlet" Oil Painting
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "The Inlet" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a group of sailboats docked in the darkness as their lights cast glimmering reflections on the i...
Canvas, Oil
"The Answer" Oil Painting
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "The Answer" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lone sailboat sailing across glass-smooth water as tumultuous cloud...
Canvas, Oil
"Nightwatch" Oil Painting
By Leigh Ann Van Fossan
Located in Denver, CO
Leigh Ann Van Fossan's "Nightwatch" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a lone sailboat floating in the darkness as their lights and the stars cast glimmering reflecti...
Canvas, Oil
Quaker Church
By Joan Parker
Located in Missouri, MO
Joan Parker (20th C.) "Quaker Church" Oil on Canvas Canvas: 30 x 40 Framed: approx 31 x 41 Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic ab...
Canvas, Oil