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.
$2,300
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
$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
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
Emile Albert Gruppe “Winter - Gloucester MA”
By Emile Albert Gruppe
Located in Dallas, TX
Emile Albert Gruppe (American, 1896-1978) "Winter - Gloucester, Mass" Oil on canvas Signed "Emile A. Gruppe" (lower right) Canvas: 20 x 24 Inchesinches Framed: 27 x 31 inches Prove...
Canvas, Oil
$3,500
H 29.5 in W 35.5 in D 2.5 in
“Autumn Landscape, c. 1910” American Impressionist New England Fall Oil Signed
Located in Yardley, PA
Warm air seems to move through this scene as the eye wanders along a gentle swale dotted with granite boulders, low stone walls and scrubby autumn color. A ribbon of meadow pulls us ...
Canvas, Oil
Big Sur Rolling Hills Landscape
By Kathleen Murray
Located in Soquel, CA
Sweeping Big Sur landscape of rolling hills in beautiful pastel colors illuminated with sunlight, by California artist Kathleen Murray (American, 1958). Oil on artists canvas board (...
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Sunny Day in the Park
Located in Buffalo, NY
19th century Impressionist oil painting of two women in a park. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed illegibly lower left. Displayed in giltwood...
Canvas, Oil
$2,000
H 24 in W 24 in D 1.5 in
"At the Cafe Paris" Impressionistic Oil Painting Woman in Cafe wearing Chanel
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
This artwork is a vibrant, impressionistic painting featuring a woman seated at a table at café Paris with a strong emotion being felt. Her story if felt through the expression in he...
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
H 35 in W 43 in D 1 in
"Mother and Child on the Beach" - 20th Century Colorful American Impressionist
By Don Hatfield
Located in Carmel, CA
Don Hatfield (American, born 1947) "Mother and Child on the Beach" Unknown Oil paint, canvas, stretcher bars Signed on the bottom right of the painting. Don Hatfield’s 'Mother and C...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
A Peaceful Country Lane
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s a gentle hand in Emanuel Matthews’ landscapes, exhibiting here and in other pieces a fondness for a more bucolic, genteel and barely industrialized America. Although painted ...
Canvas, Oil
South of France, Landscape, Cottage, Impressionist
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Marion Eldredge was born in Brooklyn in 1903. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Costume Illustration from Columbia University Teacher’s College in 1924 then worked as a fashi...
Canvas, Oil
Oil River and Mountain Landscape
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
This oil on canvas landscape painting depicts a grassy river scene with mountains in the distance. The brushstrokes are very representative of the impressionist movement, but the col...
Canvas, Oil
$1,650
H 48.5 in W 34 in D 2 in
Pocono Mountains Pennsylvania in Winter Original Oil on Canvas by Bobby Topping
Located in Soquel, CA
Pocono Mountains Pennsylvania in Winter Original Oil on Canvas by Bobby Topping Pocono Pennsylvania Mountains in winter by Belchertown and Amherst Massachusetts artist Barbara Ann "B...
Canvas, Oil
$6,300
H 10.5 in W 14.5 in
20th Century Impressionist Baseball Player Painting titled "America's Pastime"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Pierce Rice’s America’s Pastime captures the timeless energy and nostalgia of baseball, one of the nation’s most beloved traditions. In this intimate yet dynamic composition, Rice po...
Canvas, Oil
Nocturnal Bathers
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist and atmospheric coastal scene with nocturnal bathers by American artist Farquhar McGillvray Knowles (1859-1932). Knowles was born in Syracuse, NY, of Scottish an...
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